DV2000T Test....need your help

My DVD/CD drive is acting strange. Someone with a dv200t test something for me. Place your notebook on the table, your lap, whatever and pick it up and move it. When you do that, check and see if your DVD/CD drive spins (with or without a disc in the drive). You'll know it's spinning if the light on the side blinks or the blue light on the front right blinks.

OK, here's why. Sometimes when I put in a disc my drive will spin, read, but won't recognize the disc. DMA is enabled, but it won't recoginze data. Sometimes I have to pop the drive open 2 or 3 times before I can play a game from a pressed disc. Eventually the drive will work, but not right away. The strange thing I've noticed the past several days is my drive will spin just by picking up my notebook and moving it (in fact it just tried to read again while typing this thread). I need to know if this drive is defective or if others are experiencing these kind of random spins just by moving the notebook around.

 

Well, it does spin if I pick it up from my lap, but just for a slpit second, and then it stops. Other than that, no erratic spinning, that you described, so I'm guessing it might be a defective drive, especially if it doesn't read the disc the first time, or it might just be the Disc and not the Drive at all.

 

The blue light on the front is the hard drive light.

It has no relation to the CD-ROM drive.

And mine didn't do anything of what you described when I tried it out.

 

Mines spins no problem here

 

My notebook's (the 1 in the sig) light on the disk try doesnt blink when i move it.
(i think mine is prety similar to a DV2000T anyway!!)

JT

 

Yes, I know. But on my dv2000t when the ODD is reading and the green light on the side is blinking so does the HDD light on the front right. Both lights flash simultaneously on my system for some reason.

To all who replied, thanks. However, results so far are mixed. The test simply involves pickup up the notebook after it being idle for a few minutes and seeing if the disc drive reads (and the green light starts to blink). I wouldn't mind you testing the opening and closing of the lid as well (with "always on" power scheme), since my ODD spins/reads when I do that also.

 

Update: I spent about 40 minutes on the phone with HP India and after troubleshooting everything the last thing the person recommended was physically removing the ODD and reseating it back in. I thought no way this was going to make a difference but so far it has. My ODD no longer spins randomly just by closing the lid, typing on the keyboard, or simply lifting it up and putting it down. So perhaps there was a bad connection even though it was securely in place. Has anyone experienced this before were they had to actually physically remove the ODD from the machine and reinstall it?

 

Congrats on fixing it... Sounded like a bad connection /defective drive...

Has anyone heard of this before?.... well I can't remember offhand but reseating something is sometimes needed...

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