On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:10:48 +0000, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote:
> On 26 November 2010 09:04, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Every time I start my laptop, it goes "gronk... gronk, gronk, > > gronk... gronk, gronk, gronk," and flashes the light on the CD drive > > a few times. > > Does it make the noise if you leave the CD-ROM tray ejected? Nope. It is silent in booting, and, I think, faster. If I then close the CD tray, while the machine is still running, it gronks once. So the gronking noise is definitely coming from the CD drive. This was my original assumption when I started thinking about it, a couple of days ago, which is why I tried changing the boot order, hoping to skip what I assumed was a futile, time-wasting and noisy attempt to boot from CD at every start-up. But since the symptom was unchanged by this, I became a little confused and began to wonder whether it was the hard drive that was making the noise, which obviously it is not (I can well believe that if a hard drive made that sort of noise, it would be close to kaput!) I wonder whether there is some more radical way of skipping the CD stage when starting up, since merely swapping 'boot from hard drive' and 'boot from CD' in the 1 and 2 positions in the boot order doesn't seem to do it? Or is the machine merely 'initialising' the CD drive, something that the hardware has to do regardless of boot requirements? I think it has always made this noise and I have only just begun to be irritated by it. I can see I could eliminate it by removing the CD tray altogether, but this is not a very good solution. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
