Disk drive opens by accident

For some tIme I have been turning off my monitors at night by pressing Control Shift Eject.  For the past week or two I have noticed the disk tray on my Mac Pro open for no reason at all.  In the past couple of days have figured out what may have been causing it:  When I press Control Shift Eject to put the monitors to sleep, the tray opens!
Also, if I press Eject, the tray does not close as it used to.  I have to physically push the tray to get it to close.
Has anyone else experienced this?  Is this a known issue?
Thanks in advance,
Rob

Hi, Ashley -
You may have a couple of separate issues.
Re the drive door opening, that is usually caused by an attached USB device. There is a built-in hardware command on modern Macs - holding the mouse button down during boot instructs the machine to eject all removable media. If an attached device happens to transmit a signal during boot which the Mac interprets as a mouse-down signal, the drive door wil pop open.
The usual culprits for that are a digitizing tablet, a dongle, or a serial adapter like an iMate adapter; but it can be anything USB, including hubs or an extension cable on the keyboard.
Try disconnecting all USB devices except keyboard and mouse, and test. If it behaves, you'll know one of the removed devices is the culprit - it then becomes just a matter of re-attaching them one by one and testing.
Re the date change, assuming no one has intentionally altered the setting then it is a symptom of the internal battery being too weak or dead. The solution - replace the battery. They can be got at places like Radio Shack for about US$15, or for less if you shop on-line.

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