How do I stop the DVD-ROM from searching for media?

When I boot-up my laptop or when it awakes from standy-by, the DVD-ROM searches for media and makes grunting noise twice. Does anyone know how to stop this?

 

Take any DVD's in it out. If nothing is in it, then it should not do that.

 

The drive will do that every time you boot up to assure the BIOS if there is any boot media inside.

That happens when you have your DVD drive as the first boot device. If you are not booting from an CD/DVD you should put the HDD as the first device(via BIOS menu), so when you boot up the BIOS will lock for boot sectors on the HDD first than on the DVD drive.

If you have a OS installed on the HDD, the BIOS(POST) will skip the check on the DVD drive because a boot sector was found first on the first boot device.

 

Much better advice than mine!

 

Fyi, the DVD-ROM is excluded from the boot list. As I've said, it also happens when the system wakes from stand-by. Maybe it's my anti-virus program that's doing this?

 

Okay then, does it do that when there is no DVD in it?

 

Yes, it does.

 

So unfortunately there is nothing we can do... thats the internal´s drive firmware that is doing that.

Mine is an Optiarc something... doesn´t make any noise on boot.

There is only one possibility, modding your DVD-ROM´s firmware... but it´s hard, difficult and risky. And you maybe will not be able to boot from it... So it´s better to not do that...

 

Try putting it back in, but setting it behind the hard drive in order of boot priority - I'm just speculating, but taking it out of the boot order entirely may have done something a little funky.