Computer shutsdown as dvd drive spins up

I was trying to install today off a DVD and every time the drive would spin up (which sounded like it was flying away) my computer would shut down. No error, no kernal panic nothing. It happened 3 times. Looking in the logs I'm seeing stuff I'm not used to seeing. One of the lines is :
"KernelEventAgent[79]: tid 00000000 received unknown event (12)" is this strange? There are a few lines like this as well as lines talking about i/o errors. I can post the log if that'll be helpful but this just seemed strange to me.

Two guesses: either you're hitting the eject key by accident, or there's dust or something in there that makes the drive think a disc is loaded.

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