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    Vaio S CD drive noise when waking up or booting

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by penubag, Sep 6, 2012.

  1. penubag

    penubag Notebook Enthusiast

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    Vaio S laptops make a really ugly sound from the CD drive when waking up from sleep or booting up. The only solution I found to remove the sound is to disable CD altogether in the BIOS menu. But this effectively removes the CD drive from my computer unless I re-enable it again. Has anyone found a way to remove the ugly sound when booting or waking without disabling it altogether in the BIOS?
     
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    evoker Notebook Enthusiast

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    You have found the one and only way to remove the sound. By the way, this is not related only to the Vaio S, but to any notebook with a slot-in disc drive. Atleast I have yet to see (or hear) a notebook with slot-in drive that doesn't produce this sound.
     
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    penubag Notebook Enthusiast

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    My old Dell Studio 15 had a slot loading CD slot and it did not make any noises. That was my only other laptop with a CD slot so I was surprised when I heard the noise from the S. Thanks for that though, didn't know they were that wide-spread.
     
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    evoker Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well you got me then, I really haven't heared of a slot loading drive without that weird sound before. But then it's kinda disappointing that the S makes that noise. My good old XPS M1330 also made it but your Studio 15 doesn't, so when Dell has fixed it why didn't Sony :(
     
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    JaccoW Notebook Geek

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    Do you think it is software related or is it something in the software of the drive itself?

    Because otherwise putting in a different drive might help.
     
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    As far as I know the drive is checking for a disc when the sound appears. I guess the sound is hardware related, while the firmware tells the drive when to check for discs (e.g. on boot, wake etc.). But I'm just making guesses here.
     
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