Noisy CD Drive

Mel Culbreath · Post by **Mel Culbreath** » 27 Oct 2002 7:05 pm

I recently bought a new computer with a 24x10x40 CDR-RW drive.
A few days after I got it I noticed that it makes a loud buzzing or vibrating sound when I play certain music or data CDs. The same CDs do not cause this problem when I play them on my old computer's CDROM drive or on my car CD player, or on my home CD player. I spoke to the guy I bought the PC from and he said that the newer CD drives spin faster than the old ones, and faster than my audio CD players do and if the CD is warped the slightest bit that could cause the problem with the new CDR-RW drive.

I am wondering if any of you have experienced this buzzing with your CD drives when playing audio or data CDs. Is this a common problem, or do I need to insist on a replacement drive?

Thanks,

Mel

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 28 Oct 2002 10:54 am

I am not sure about the audio CD's spin faster than data cd story that guy told you, but I do have some warped CD's that do make noise when it the drive. I would be interested to hear if other people have this issue with Computer cd players.

Mark

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Everett Cox · Post by **Everett Cox** » 28 Oct 2002 11:19 am

Mel-- I was doing some recording with my guitar plugged into the soundcard and using the 'puter speakers to monitor. I noticed a 'buzzing' sound as you describe when the volume control on the computer was set too high. (A definite threshold point) Setting THAT control lower and turning the SPEAKER volume up gave me the same level with no buzzing. Seems like the amp in the powered speakers was being over-driven???

So, try turning the volume control on the computer and.or CD drive DOWN a bit even though you must then turn the speakers UP to compensate. --Everett

Mel Culbreath · Post by **Mel Culbreath** » 29 Oct 2002 3:57 pm

Everett,

I did as you suggested and experimented with turning the speaker volume up and the computer volume down. I also turned the computer volume up and the speaker volume down and the noise stayed the same.

The sound I am refering to is not coming from the speakers, it is coming from the CD drive itself.

Thanks,

Mel

Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 30 Oct 2002 1:44 am

We have a couple of Audio CD players here that make a loud buzzing noise if they are not level, with the disk absolutely horizontal. They are rack mounted on desktop racks which lean back at about 15 degrees, and we have to chock them up at the back to level them. Sometimes they still do it and have to be disciplined with a sharp slap on top of the case. That usually cures the problem and makes sure that the students take care not to annoy me for an hour or two!
Cheers
Dave