woah: noisy ibook cdr/dvd drive

[danaeris]

Um. So I just popped a cd into the laptop for the first time in a long time, and it is being NOISY. I think something might be broken.

Anyone had this happen with their iBook?

It's still working; I'm successfully ripping the CD. It just seems very noisy about it.

In other news, there are stupid people on the int0rweb. Go figure.

Comments

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

If the disc has printing on it that is 'unbalanced' (that is, more on one side than the other) it can cause a CD to make more noise... I wouldn't worry about it if it's just this one disc.

[mycroft.livejournal.com]

Is it actually the CD vibrating, or the computer? It's not uncommon for slightly loose components in a laptop (e.g. the battery) to vibrate noisily.

[nathanjw]

At one point the metal shell that surrounds the optical drive on my iBook (old, tray-loading, not slot-loading - I'm not sure which you have) got slightly bent and would scrape against the disk, making a remarkably loud noise. It wasn't too hard to open it up to the point where I could flex that bit of metal back into place.

That said, it's never really been a quiet drive.