T400 DVD Drive issue?

The DVD drive seems to be working fine, until I put in a "Pushing Daisies" DVD. Season 1 consists of 3 discs, and all of them seem to give the same issue. The DVD drive starts to work extremely loudly, seems to have difficulty to read the disc and shakes the entire laptop, almost violently. If I don't take the DVD out, it would read fine, but the loud noise and shaking would continue. If I put any other DVD into the drive, I don't get the issue. Is it a defective drive or should I wait until I get the same issue with another DVD?

The exact model number is "matshita dvd-ram uj-862a"

Thanks for the replies.

 

It is likely that the disc is unbalanced, did you try it on another machine?

 

I also have a problem with my DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive. It works loudly with CDs but quietly with DVDs. However, since I rarely use an optical drive I do not consider the problem seriously.

 

You may be able to adjust the speed of the optical drive. On my T40 I could choose normal, maximum performance, or silent. I would usually leave it on normal, but occasionally I would use the silent option (good for movies, bad for installing programs).

I believe I was able to change this by getting to power properties (right click on desktop, display settings, screen saver, power), and flipping through the tabs until I found it.

This should fix the problem for you, or the media you have may simply be bad.

 

I did select the 'silent' mode in BIOS but this does not help. The noises still remain when my optical drive runs. I think this should be some kinds of defectiveness.