DVD humming like a monster?

Installing Quake4 again. Took a nice break from it.

Well CD3 is installing as we speak and its vibrating like a vibrator and I think there is something seriously wrong with my DVD drive.

Whats going on here???

It's not dirty inside. I actually took apart my FE a week ago and used compressed air to clean out all the dust.

 

Haha...

My DVD drive on my DELL did the exact same thing for some dvds/cds.....I'm like...is going on? I sitll dont know how to fix it....I mean it quiets down if i sit there and push it in towards the laptop....but I'm not going to sit there doing that and looking like an idiot with one hand on my dvd rom.

 

Yeah, if I push the DVD drive in with my finger (or lift the laptop at a high angle) the sound stops.

I tested it on other DVDs and CDs but it only happens to my Quake4 CDs. The CDs are scratch free and very clean.

Is it just a sign this drive is giving out?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=108467

 

You know what

I had the same problem before and I think I know where the problem came from.

Is your laptop on a laptop cooler when you are installing application? I notice every time when I use DVD drive on a slanted surface "Laptop Cooler" its xtreamly loud. I can also hear part of my disc having contact with the hardware inside.

Shortly after that my DVD drive broke and I went to Sony and got it replace.

 

It might be loose. Try taking the optical drive apart (if you can) and secure it back in place and see if that helps.

 

I took the back off and messed around with the drive. One loose screw slightly loose haha I should have known! But still, isn't that a little odd it started only with the Quake CDs and only those CDs? Well after I tightened it up I tried the CD again and no shake!

QUAKE4 Will MAKE EARTHQUAKES WITH ITS AWESOMENESS!

 

It could be the balance of the Quake 4 CD itself. Perhaps that particular disk is not as well balanced and creates more wobble when spinning at max RPMs.

I'm glad you found the loose screw though, Red.

 

w00t w00t. haha. Well at least it is fixed. Yea I would assume some kind of noise like that because it is loose or something. I think its because Quake is such a powerful game its tearing the computers apart

 

So basically the CD was crammed full of stuff to the bursting point?

"Balanced". I notice when I burn music/data CDs/DVDs at a lower burn speed the quality is always better and disk lasts longer.

So maybe Quake4 was burnt at high speeds, IDK.

 

I was referring more to the physical distribution of weight on the disk itself. Or it could be that it's not entirely symmetrical--thereby causing a little wobble that is most noticeable when spun at high speeds.