DVD Drive randomly ejecting DV5t

I recently purchased this machine and did a clean install of Vista Ultimate 32. The weird thing is, once in a while, the dvd drive tries to read a disc (the drive is empty) and then it ejects the tray. Strange! Does anyone have this issue? Please enlighten me.

 

This is crazy, I recenlty recommneded a laptop to my brother with similar specs to mine. After taking it home and getting it all set up it does the same thing as yours.

 

More often than not it is one of two issues.

Most likely reason - there is a program running, possibly in the background, that uses the disc drive. Every time this program goes to access the disc and finds none, it thinks there should be one and ejects the tray as a way to inform the user to please put the disc in. One way to check would be to start the PC in safe mode by hitting F8 during the boot sequence. Safe mode disables a lot of programs that would normally run at start up. If you do this and it proves that it is a program by the problem not occurring in safe mode, the next step is to figure out which program it is. You can do this by typing msconfig into a run program to be able to access the list of start up programs and tell it to disable different programs until you find which one is the source of the problem. From there, open that program and go into the programs settings and check to see if it there are options pertaining to the disc drive and adjust those as necessary.

Another possibility, but far less likely - The driver that controls your disc drive is corrupted. While this is less likely, it still can happen. The downside here, however, is if this is the problem, then you are looking at a bit more work to correct the problem. The reason is most optical drives will utilize standard Microsoft drivers and software to interact with the computer. While they may also have their own manufacturer driver, these are slowly becoming more and more infrequent as Microsoft provides its universal driver. So, if yours uses the Microsoft driver (can be found in the Device Manager), really the only way to fix it is to either disable/enable the drive. If that doesn't work, you may have to restore the O.S. to fix it.

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