Teac DV516E-A rev B clicking sound from drive?

[Smile_M]

Hi, I have just purchased a new TEAC DV516E-A revision B DVD-ROM.

When I inset a CD it spins it up and this weird clicking popping sound is present. It is quite loud, you can hear it with CPU and PSU fans. I tried different CD's that work normally and the same results. I even tried 8cm CD-RW disk and again the sound is there.

Should it be this way? None of my CD-ROM's makes this sound. It's like the head is vibrating and produces this sound. Do you only hear cd spinning or any clicking sounds from your TEAC?

[jdizzy40]

No. Sounds like you got a bad drive.

[Smile_M]

Download and hear for your self. I have recorded the sound by holding a standard microphone in front of the DVD-ROM. Best heard with headphones.

1. startsup.mp3 - I inset CD, the drive start up and starts clicking. You can hear it best from 38sec.

http://www1.omnitel.net/portal/startsup.mp3

2. constant clicking while CD is slowed down but still spinning.

http://www1.omnitel.net/portal/clicking.mp3

So does your do that?

[jdizzy40]

No, but that was interesting to listen to.

[DVDJunkee]

My old hitachi DVD drive does the same thing. It is probably about 5 years old now, its a first gen from my old old dell system back when 300mhz was top of the line. As far as I can tell, it only happens on my home burned DVD's, princo's, and only on some of them. So I think its related to bad dvds.
Another thing, it seems to maybe be "turning off" or powering off when that happens, as windows XP no longer recognizes the drive, until I refresh and search for plug and play devices.

Anyone have a fix for this?

[Smile_M]

I think the problem is that my TEAC DVD-ROM was made in china!

I heard that Plextor CD-RW's that are made in china a very poor quality and total crap

Where is your Teac made?