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    Vaio TZ: DVD noise during startup

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by alvina, Mar 4, 2008.

  1. alvina

    alvina Newbie

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    Everytime I boot up my TZ, just before the "VAIO" logo comes up, my DVD drive makes some noise as if it is trying to read a disc. This only lasts a second, but is quite audible.

    Is it just me? or do any other TZ owners have this as well?
    I do not think i heard this noise until recently, and I don't know what I did to make this occur. I installed WinXP on it recently, but I don't think that is what's causing the problem.

    :(
     
    alvina, Mar 4, 2008
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  2. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    Happens to me on my G2S. I believe its searching for a boot disc. It has happened on all my laptops.
     
    gengerald, Mar 5, 2008
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    epbrown Notebook Consultant

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    Mine does that as well. If you want it to stop, press the F2 key during bootup and take the DVD drive out of your boot order; your system is checking for a bootable device, and by default the hard drive is the last it checks. If you make the hard drive first, you'll boot without checking for a floppy, USB drive, CD/DVD, and everything else.
     
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  4. alvina

    alvina Newbie

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    I have excluded all devices from the boot sequence in bios except the internal hard drive, but still, as soon as I press the power button and before anything else happens, I still hear the optical drive make the noise, "doot doot........doot doot"
    any idea?
     
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  5. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    It could be written into the TZ bios to do that, whether it is active or not. It may be some kinda of anti-drive failure system to diagnose the problem early? Not sure, guessing...
     
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    voipben Notebook Consultant

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    My guess would be that the noise is caused by the DVD drive being turned on at boot-up, regardless of whether it is actually going to be used. Doesn't bother me but I do get that same little sound.

    Benjamin
     
    voipben, Mar 5, 2008
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