While we are on the subjects of fatal electrocution via a Vaio, hard drives sounding like crickets in heat, batteries exploding in our faces, and Bass Boost sounding nothing like that at all, let’s find out about the CD drive, not the DVD drive, although someone lucky enough to have the TR5 could do that one…

My experience is that it’s kind of noisy for a CD drive, but that’s understandable considering its size. Both I’ve had (DVD and DVD-RW) work like a charm.

I’ve noticed the noise a lot more since I switched to the DVD-RW.

Erik

yeah, the tolerences must be tight on these drives, i think i mentioned here before (don’t tell anyone) that i get a lot of bootleg cds and really cheesy blank media here in nepal and those Cds make my drive go crazy; many are non-readable or writable, but when i take it back to my reseller, who has an old 386, they all work fine.

That’s just common sense. Cheap media is 90% of people’s burning problems.

I don’t even notice mine….considering all your replies, is that a bad thing?  :shock:

~nox

That’s just common sense. Cheap media is 90% of people’s burning problems.

its karma too, its really hard to get good media in nepal and other developing parts of the world, even the stuff that looks good is knock off, but i am beginning to suspect there are problems with reading/writing with the TR, and maybe it’s all software related, i cant tell, i just know that native burning works fine on mine, Roxio 6 is junk, and a lot of other programs that say they burn VCD images do, but they are not readable on VCD players.  I noticed too that when installing Encarta, with the copy all feature, the TR chokes during the install on the very large and numerous files. the CD drive and cd media become very hot - like it’s overloaded, and some CDs stop spinning like there is a power problem with the drive.  scary. 

jigs

Whenever I put a CD in my TR it makes a fairly loud humming sound (sounds like its working REALLY hard to play it) - has anyone else had this problem or is there some setting that I could adjust to affect this?

Thanks

[quote author=“tlvancouver”]Whenever I put a CD in my TR it makes a fairly loud humming sound (sounds like its working REALLY hard to play it) - has anyone else had this problem or is there some setting that I could adjust to affect this?

Thanks

does that apply to ALL CD’s or a few..? it happenes alot my my cd-rw drive on the inspiron 8100 but rarely on my tr (uj-812 dvd-rw & oem cd-rw)

[quote author=“linc”][quote author=“tlvancouver”]Whenever I put a CD in my TR it makes a fairly loud humming sound (sounds like its working REALLY hard to play it) - has anyone else had this problem or is there some setting that I could adjust to affect this?

Thanks

does that apply to ALL CD’s or a few..? it happenes alot my my cd-rw drive on the inspiron 8100 but rarely on my tr (uj-812 dvd-rw & oem cd-rw)

happens on my TR3 alot, also did on now dead TR1…but with the same media. some CDs are just hummers it seems.  some are clickers, with it sounding like the head cant figure out what to do, some are as silent as the lambs.  unless it happens with every CD, i guess we have to believe its the media at fault…i guess.  but i dont really like the cd drive on the TRs…they make me nervous.  some cds sound like they are scratching around and touching the door while the drive is spinning changes the tone of the racket. these cds have thick labels and also seem to get stick a bit while inserting in my home DVD player (slot type).  as i mentioned, i live in cd media hell with most cds/vcds/dvds being of the half USD type.  the tolerences for the TR drive must be tight, causing it to be fussy? but then again i’ve been burning SVCDs all weekend from a movie i just finished and that makes me happy :o
jigs

All these threads about the hard drive making noises scares me.  I have never really noticed a peep out of mine, knock on wood.  This makes me think twice about upgrading.  I would hate to go through the process of getting the latest TR when Dothan hits, and then have any issues. :(