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wierd cd drive buzz

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by kingofgamemasters777, Feb 27, 2009.

  1. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    when i put a comircal cd in my cd drive ie the softeware that come with my computer, the drive makes a buzzing noise but when i put a burnible disk it it dosent make that noise. why could that be and how do i fix it?
     
  2. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    What's comircal? Comical? (I know you mean commercial, but I was just finding an excuse to criticize your spelling.)

    Well, for CDs that already have information on it, the drive reads what's on the CD and therefore the drive spins faster and creates a buzzing noise. Especially if the CD autoplays a program, the computer needs to spin up the CD to copy the program to RAM.

    As for a blank CD, the computer quickly recognizes it is blank and writable and stops reading it because there is nothing on it to read, no programs to execute, and no files to open. Therefore, the drive does not make a buzzing sound because it is not spinning up the CD at high speeds. Of course it will start spinning up again once you decide to write to the CD.
     
  3. Almo

    Almo Well-Known Member

    weird. My old CD drive made a strange buzzing sound too, and when I put in a PSX game to dump the ISO it somehow shattered the disk in the drive and I had to open the PC to shake all the little bits of CD out.

    also I assume you mean an electronic buzzing sound, and not just the sound of the disk spinning?
     
  4. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    the burnted cd has data on it and this never happed before, and also this isent a tiny buzzing noise its loud
     
  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Some drives just make more noise than others. I imagine that for whatever reason your drive is able to read commercial discs faster than burned ones, therefore the commercial discs spin faster. its perfectly normal, my lite-on CDRW drive sounds like a goddamn motorbike revving when it gets going. (it's woken my parents up at least once).
     
  6. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    hum interesting, i thank its because the tray is rattling against another pice of plastic because when i press down on it the noise stops
     
  7. waylonn

    waylonn Well-Known Member

    Got it too, just put something on the computer that's heavy enough to push it down. I have it especially when playing BF2142