Has anybody else experienced a noisy DVD Rom drive on any of the RA Series desktops. All the RA's have pretty much the same components, just little tweeks with graphics cards, and hard drives to differentiate between models.
The DVD drive, classed as a HL-DT-ST GDR 8163B, I believe it to be a LG model, sometimes is very quite, others very vocal, depending on which type of disc / media is loaded. It can be very noisy with DVD films at the start or whilst going through menu's, as if it has difficulties reading, but is not limited to any particular disc or film.
You would believe the disc is about to launched with great force out of the casing. I have yet to check speed ratings of the drive, as it should be x16 max for DVD, and x52 max for CD. The other DVD RW drive, a Sony, is whisper quite at all times.
Is this possibly just a characteristic of the drive, giving the speed rating of the drive, or early signs of destruction, giving that the pc is only 4 weeks old and has had the noise from first boot, and was a replacement for a RZ 424 with a faulty DVD Rom drive, but that was a Pioneer drive.
Even after the RZ had a new drive fitted by Sony, it still refused to read any / many discs including the recovery disc, unless you recovered the pc first, but this would only last for days or weeks at best, but that's another story!
