Hi everyone,

I was not sure which section my problem can fit in so I decided to post it in the Windows topic.
Yesterday I formatted my PC and I installed everything new with the latest drivers. The problem I encounter is quite strange : when I connect an external drive OR when I launch iTunes (yes iTunes, I'm not joking) on my PC, the optical drive make a noise. From time to time, my optical drive also makes this noise, with no apparent reason. This noise is exactly the same when I boot my PC up. It is like an initialisation sound.
It is very strange because I didn't have this problem before neither with an external drive nor iTunes.
I think it is related to one of the driver I installed (I didn't install anything for the optical drive though) and more precisely the Intel AHCI driver 13.6.0.1002... I'm not sure but it's one of the only thing that changed after the new install...
And I don't get why the optical drive would be triggered by iTunes or when an external drive is connected...

EDIT : my AutoPlay in windows is disabled, "put hard disks to sleep" is also disabled.

Have someone a clue?
Thanks in advance.

I found a related topic which explains my problem maybe better : http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/...n-empty.597557/

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t...-for-no-reason/

Yep, I'll do that !

ok so, I solve the problem. I had earlier a big issue with the AHCI driver 13.6.0.1002, my computer froze completely. The event viewer showed a lot of errors with Disk and iAstorA... I de-installed the 13.6.0.1002 and installed the AHCI driver 13.6.2.1001 and since I've got no problem anymore !

EDIT : Well I spoke too soon... The problem came again. I've tried with the 13.5.2.1000 and the problem is still the same...

Hum, I've restarted my computer and the problem was gone for 5 minutes. And it did it again.... It's really weird...

Yes, it's empty. And it works good !
The explorer shows the DVD icon with the appropriate letter. Disk Management shows CD-ROM 0 and below DVD with the letter.

Well now I've de-installed the AHCI driver. I'm running with the microsoft ones and the problem is gone since 10 minutes. I have no idea why the new AHCI drivers are messing up so much with my laptop...

A screenshot of what the Intel AHCI driver triggered yesterday : http://hpics.li/f19a6fe

The problem is that I can't test these options easily.

I think you're right, my optical drive has problems with the AHCI drivers. BUT I didn't have any of these problems before when I was running with the previous version of the AHCI driver (v12 for example). So I think it's caused by the new ones... What exactly, I don't now... Maybe I'll call Dell/Alienware later then...