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    Playing DVDs on T500

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by timosy8, Nov 5, 2009.

  1. timosy8

    timosy8 Newbie

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    Laptop sounds like it's dying whenever I try to play a DVD... by which I mean the disk drive spins up to full activity, stays there, goes back down to nothing, and immediately spins up again --- infinitely.

    It's gotten to the point where I just rip the DVD image of whatever I'm trying to play and mount it virtually-- but I was wondering if there was any reason for this/anyone else experienced this.

    How are you supposed to view DVDs in say a library? Or anywhere there are other humans for that matter, the disk drive gets ridiculously loud.

    Edit: It's the same noise (presumably) you get when you first insert a CD/DVD and it spins up as it's reading it... only when playing DVD movies it does this over and over and over ad infinitum.
     
    timosy8, Nov 5, 2009
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  2. lead_org

    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    try to run a diagnostic of your disc drive through thinkvantage system tools.
     
    lead_org, Nov 5, 2009
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  3. mikec

    mikec Notebook Evangelist

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    Some DVD drives are noisier than others.

    As I recall there are firmware fixes for drives; firmware updates can sometimes help with this.
     
    mikec, Nov 6, 2009
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  4. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    I think there's a quiet setting in the BIOS for the optical drive.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 6, 2009
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