Optical drive being accessed during sleep

I close the lid, put it to sleep and my optical drive keeps being accessed. Its erratic; 1,2 or 3 times a minute - sometimes it doesn't start for 35 minutes, sometimes it stops after a while. No outside devices attached. Its annoying to say the least.
Anyone else have this problem? I talked to technical at applecare several times and they had no record of anyone else having this issue.

I've made some progress. I figured that was happening (and shouldn't be happening) was that something was momentarily waking the computer which does a optical disk access when it wakes.
I disabled wifi and that didn’t do it and then I disabled Bluetooth – I use a Logitech Bluetooth mouse – and that stopped the problem.
Further details if anyone is interested: when I close the computer case and put my mouse on top of the macbook there is no problem. No optical drive accesses. When I put the mouse on my wooden desktop the problem starts. I turned the mouse upside down (case closed – sleep state) and after a while a little red led started blinking in a small window. When I put my finger over the window the optical drive was accessed. The mouse is sending something to the computer and it wakes. It shouldn’t wake but it does.
macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Similar Messages

  • Optical drive being accessed (makes noise) waking from sleep & on startup

    On my Macbook Pro, the optical drive makes a noise as though being accessed whenever waking up from sleep mode or powering on. Is this normal behavior?

    Yes

  • Why is optical drive running when in sleep mode

    Optical drive appears to be trying to start during sleep mode. It sounds just as it does when MacBook is booted up, this happens continually every few seconds or so in sleep mode. Any ideas? Thanks

    baltwo wrote:
    To appease the greenies. Has nothing to do with running cooler, IMO.
    Well of course running cooler is not the main objective, saving power is and heat is dissipated power. Hence if running hot, the main purpose has not been achieved. I don't think Apple or anyone will argue to the contrary.
    As noted earlier, Temperature Monitor.
    Thank you for the link, I had just downloaded iStat Pro which has less detailed reporting.

  • External hard drive being accessed wirelessly, any way to auto re-mount?

    Hello, I have an external hard drive connected via firewire to an iMac running Panther 10.3.9. It is being accessed wirelessly by a MacBook running 10.4.10 for auto backups. Everything works great, except when either computer is shut down, or when the MacBook is taken out of our home network, I have to remember to manualy re-mount (wirelessly) the firewire drive on the MacBook or else the backup program will not find the destination drive. I have the computers starting/waking automatically 15 minutes prior to the scheduled backup.
    Is there a way to have the external drive automatically re-mount over the network to the MacBook? Can Automator help with this?

    Try this.
    Connect to the remote volume you want to auto-mount and select "Remember password in keychain".
    Once the volume appears on you desktop, open System Preferences and go to the Accounts pane. Select the "Login Items" tab on the right. Drag the icon from the desktop of the remote volume into the Login Items window. You don't have to check "Hide".
    Close System Preferences. When you startup the computer the remote volume should appear on the desktop.
    Hope this helps.

  • Optical Drive Accesses for No Apparent Reason

    I have a new HP Pavilion dv7 laptop with Windows 7 64-bit OS. My question concerns accesses to the optical drive for no apparent reason. While it seems reasonable that when booting up the system the firmware will check the optical drive to see if there is a startup CD in it I do not understand other apparent attempts to access the optical drive. For example, after bootup and running within Windows 7 I attempt to play a mp3 music file residing on the hard disk I can hear the optical drive being accessed. Specifically, I double click on a mp3 file on my hard disk but before the music player application pops up I hear several clicks and clacks as the computer checks the optical drive for a disk...I assume. Is there a setup file someone where this kind of activity is enabled? IMHO, the computer should not be attempting to check the optical dirve  when attempting to play a mp3 file on the HD.
    Another scenario I've noticed is during the logon process. Specifically, as the computer boots up there is a typical click-clack of the optical drive as the firmware checks to see if there is a startup CD in the drive. Next, Windows 7 in up and running but sitting on the user logon screen. When I type my password to log onto my account I hear more click-clack accesses to the optical drive. This may be a typical thing for Windows 7...I'm not sure as I'm new to Windows 7. However, the description I gave above concerning playing of mp3 music seems odd.
    The sound I hear is definitely not the hard disk.  It is the same sound that the optical drive makes if you open the drive and close it without inserting a disk.  That is, the laser tracking motor moving the laser pickup from the outer edge to the inner edge and back to check to see if a CD or DVD is sitting in the drive.  Playing an mp3 music file residing on the hard disk causes this to happen.  It only happens once when starting up the music player.

    Hi There,
    What is the media application you have in the computer? Such as Intervideo windvd. cyberlink  etc…
    Few applications keep checking the media even though these applications are not in use. Fixes for such applications are posted on respective support websites, you may want to check and update. or if you do not wish to use such applications you can try un-installing these applications and verify the functionality.
    Hope it helps.
    Thank you,
    Waseem – HP 2LS
    **Click the KUDOS star on the left to say 'Thanks'**
    Make it easier for other people to find solutions by marking a Reply 'Accept as Solution' if it solves your problem.
    Regards,
    WW
    “I am an HP Employee“
    ***** Click the KUDOS star on the left to say 'Thanks'**
    Make it easier for other people to find solutions by marking a Reply 'Accept as Solution' if it solves your problem***

  • Time Machine drive constantly being accessed?

    After my Mavericks install, I've noticed that my TM drive sounds like it's being accessed (or written to?) constantly. When it goes to sleep (due to settings in Energy Saver), it'll stop, but then it'll wake back up a few minutes later and make sounds again. It's not grinding or anything, and the indicator LED is not flashing. (It only does that when sleeping/waking or when TM is actively backing up.) I looked in Activity Monitor, and could not find anything that would be affecting the drive. It's also excluded from Spotlight. Did I miss something?
    The TM drive is a Western Digital MyBook, if that helps.

    Well, I didn't actually suspect that it was a corrupt file. If it is a corrupt file, I'm not sure really how to deal with it. Any suggestions on tracking down the culprit?
    What I actually suspect is that buildhdindex is an old drive indexing app (been around since 10.3 I believe) that wasn't updated to deal with Time Machine's hard-linking. It also has no options to exclude the Time Machine drive, it wants to index everything. Because TM is basically keeping a huge series of links and not actual copies of files, it's looping endlessly.
    Of course, I would expect to have heard more about this issue, so maybe it is something specific to my machine, i.e. a corrupt file.
    Possibly related, I get a ton of these messages in the console:
    com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[1087]: SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for vers ID 1 (pBase = 0x1e424a20, p = 0x1e424a44, pEnd = 0x1e424a4f)
    Message was edited by: Anthony Hecht

  • Mac Pro Ports cycling power during sleep - waking up drives

    If I try to sleep my Mac Pro 6,1 under Yosemite, everything powers down as expected, I’ve even successfully used ‘Jettison’ to eject the USB drives on the first sleep power down.  However, the Mac then powers its ports back up, awaking the USB and Thunderbolt drives, and other USB peripherals, and in doing so remounts the disk, which then when it goes back to sleep is incorrectly ejected.
    There seems to be a roughly 2 minutes cycling of power of the ports when it sleeps.  Powers all down in about 30 seconds, all lights out, screens go dark.  Then maybe 30 seconds later the ports power back up, the drive lights (and other USB devices) power back up, maybe for 30 seconds before then powering back down.  The screens do remain dark throughout this per Sleep.  All this happens while under Sleep, and carries on cycling ports power this way, mounting and ejecting drives incorrectly each time as it goes…..  This doesn’t seem right?  It never happened under Mavericks. Have I got a Yosemite bug or a hardware issue cropped up by chance when I powered down my computer over Christmas and then installed Yosemite as a clean install?
    The Thunderbolt Lacie RAID is NOT being incorrectly unmounted. That's fine.
    The two 1TB WD drives in a Hornettek Serial ATA USB 3 connected enclosure are being incorrectly unmounted during sleep as detailed above.
    Both these external drives are directly plugged to the MacPro.

    Whew, I thought I was the only one with this problem. I'm also getting the "double-click" sounds when trying to wake the machine up from the dead zone (after going to sleep- either on its own or after attempting to awaken it a few minutes after manually putting it to sleep).
    I've had my computer serviced by a Mac-authorized repair center three times for this issue. The first visit resulted in an operating system upgrade to Leopard, which seem to fix the issue for a few days. When it reappeared, the second visit resulted in a logic board switch- the technician actually kept it there because the problem reoccurred after testing the new board. He then found a broken wire in the power supply and replaced that. On the third visit, they actually had to send it in to the Apple engineering department- who replaced the video card with an updated version of the same.
    This is driving me insane- the repair center knows their stuff (I'm in IT, myself so I know they're not incompetent)... they've exhausted nearly every possible solution- replaced every component, different OS, etc... the apple engineers couldn't even fix it. I dread going to the Apple Store because I know the people at the Genius Bar are way less knowledgable than the guys I go to... but since I'm still under AppleCare, I may be able to get a machine swap if they can't fix the problem in a few weeks.

  • Optical Drive = Noisy in Sleep

    I'm really desperate for some help with this problem.
    When I put my computer to sleep, the optical drive spins (like it is loading a CD). Sometimes it does it every five seconds, sometimes every 30 seconds, etc.
    I've called AppleCare and they couldn't fix it. We tried several things.
    I left it with a Mac-certified technician for over a week. They said they "couldn't replicate the problem" but reconnected some sensor cords and reinstalled my operating system.
    The problem is back.
    Anyone had this problem and had it resolved?
    And what happens when both AppleCare via phone and Mac-certified techs can't fix it? This is the second MacBook I've had due to problems, and I'm finding this pretty ridiculous.

    I am having the EXACT same problem.
    Our MacBook was sent in for repair and they "did something". My calls to India and the US were not bvery illuminating.
    I put the MacBook to sleep and then sometime during the next few hours it will spin the SuperDrive up for a 1/2 second.
    Looking for answers.
    thanks,
    dave

  • MBP won't start or read from optical drive; steady sleep indicator light

    MBP went into sleep mode at some point during the day. Now I cannot wake it up. I had a steady sleep indicator light. I've tried everything in the book (holding down pwr button to shut down, then restarting; reset power manager; tried rebooting with OS disc #1 installed - which now will not eject).
    When I press the power button, I can hear the optical drive start to turn, then it stops short. The drive will spin for awhile, then stops automatically. The computer fans come on, but that's about it. I can't reboot so as to run Disk Utility. The screen remains black. Starting with shift key pressed for Safe mode or pressing C also have not worked. Seems as if the computer is not getting passed the initial start up sequence. My wife also has a MBP but I haven't tried reading my computer via Firewire yet. Not sure that will help.
    I'm a long way away from any Apple store (Kazakhstan) and would greatly appreciate some help. Thanks! Scott

    This problem has been resolved. Problem was a faulty RAM module. I sent my MacBook Pro to an authorized service center; they had it fixed in less than 1 day. Works fine now. No problems since!

  • IMac 2009 (21 inch) making hard drive noises during sleep mode - normal??

    Hi there guys,
    I have an iMac 21 inch (2009) , 3ghz C2D, 4GB Ram, 1TB hard drive (the hard drive was upgraded straight thru apple, when i bought it i paid extra for a 1tb hard drive, its not a DIY hard drive upgrade)
    aniways, I recently noticed that during sleep mode, occasionally (not all the time) I can hear some faint clicking / hard drive noise, which is really weird because i put the imac in sleep mode and it really shouldnt be doing that no?
    My 13 inch macbook pro 2010 never does this in sleep mode, its always dead silent
    Im just wondering if this hard drive accessing / clicking noise during sleep mode is normal in imacs??

    Im just wondering if this hard drive accessing / clicking noise during sleep mode is normal in imacs?
    No it should not be doing anything but sleeping. The SMC controls sleep, try resetting it.
    Reset the SMC
    • Shut down the computer.
    • Detach the computer's power cord.
    • Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
    • Release the power button.
    • Reattach the computers power cable.
    • Turn on the computer.
    Dah•veed

  • MB's optical drive interrupts sleep mode for no apparent reason

    Noticed this over the past few days: When I shut my MacBook's lid, the optical drive spins once or twice and even though the screen is dark, I don't think the MacBook is actually entering sleep mode-- instead, I have hit the "sleep" command from the Apple menu. Each time this happened, there's been no disc in the drive. It happened just now as well. So am I crazy, or is this unusual?
    The MacBook in question is: 2.0ghz Core Duo 2 chip; 120 GB hard drive; 2 GB of RAM; Superdrive. It's a one-month-old black MacBook, if that makes any difference.
    Two nights ago, it happened while the following programs were running [but hidden]: Firefox, Activity Monitor, iChat, iTunes, iCal, iJournal, Mail, LaunchBar, NewsFire, System Profiler, and Pages trial.
    However, this also happened last night and only LaunchBar would have been running at the time. I actually had to turn the MacBook off last night, because I wanted to make absolutely sure the optical drive would stop spinning.
    Right now, the only peripheral "hooked up" to my Mac is a bluetooth-enabled Logitech wireless mouse. Is it possible this is what's preventing the MacBook from staying asleep? I've fiddled with the Bluetooth pane's "allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" setting but that doesn't appear to affect when or how often my optical drive interrupts sleep mode. It's annoying when I'm trying to sleep and the optical drive spins up every 30 seconds or so until I have to shut the whole computer off. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
    13.1-inch black MacBook w/ Intel Core Duo 2 chip   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

    Take it in for service since it's in warranty. There may be a serious hardware problem.

  • Optical drive tries to find a disk at startup and when getting out of sleep

    I don't think it's a macbook only problem. I had tried to install photoshop but at a certain point, the computer freezes and I had to shutdown. When I startup, it freezes after five seconds when loading up everything everytime, but the mouse still moves. I finally found out about the safe mode so I solved my inability to work with my macbook.
    The problem I have now is that everytime I startup the computer, it wants to find a disk in the optical drive. It only does it once but it does it everytime I startup and also coming out of sleep, any suggestions?

    Is the system process to look the optical drive that bad, I mean like sound wise, was it horrible, and what about the time consuming when it look for something in the drive, was it a couple second or it took forever with the beachball rolling. And was it like that since you have it or it just happen after you installed photoshop and freeze.
    If it just like couple second, I assume it just default setting from PRAM that instruct optical drive everytime you start up or wake up from sleep to check is there something inside the optical drive that need to be read or spit it out or it could be the lens adjusted/calibrated itself, but I could be wrong on this.
    But if it to annoying and you suspect a mal-production, better bring that to apple store and show them and consult with them, probably you will get a better one that is not a mal-production.
    Hope this help.
    Mike

  • Early 2008 MBP, replaced optical drive with SSD, now computer won't sleep.

    So pretty much you know everything already, installed the operating system on the SSD everything works fine except the computer wont sleep.
    Any help wouldbe great
    thanks

    I am about to do the same upgrade on MBP 13". Reading around the topic I think this problem is caused when the OS is running from the drive in the optical bay.
    See extract from following link:
    http://lifehacker.com/5541774/how-to-install-a-solid+state-drive-in-your-macbook
    Update: It seems that connecting the SSD to the optical drive slot will give you problems waking from sleep, since the MacBook doesn't look to that SATA port for your main drive. I did not notice this before, as I don't sleep my computer. So, instead of installing your SSD in the Optibay, you'll want to disconnect your regular hard drive, install the SSD in that slot, and then install your old drive in the Optibay and continue as written.

  • Win7 won't install in Mac mini SL w/no optical drive, crashes when accessing external HD

    I've been trying to install win7 on my Mac Mini with 10.6.8 that doesn't have an optical drive.  I've been able to do the bootcamp partition just fine but when it goes to restart into the windows partition with the win7 disk in the external HD, my screen goes grey, then a green with purple border and then black.  I have to reboot and if I press the alt/opt key, I'm able to get into OSX again.  The research I've done shows I need to create a .iso file which I did with disk utility.  I created all types of .iso files, read only, compressed and dvd.cdr files.  Nothing is working.  Bootcamp is not recognizing any of the 5 thumb drives I've put the .iso files on as I read some drives aren't able to be recognized.  The external HD works as I reinstalled SL just fine using it.  My research also shows that win7 won't install from an external HD.  So I'm at a a loss as to how to proceed from here.  I went into my old windows machine to try to create a bootable thumb drive after I install win7 there but the Dell is so old, I don't have a DVD drive in it, only a CD drive.  And if I buy a downloadable version of win7 I still need to get it to a DVD or a thumb drive to get it installed. 
    Does anyone have any ideas?  I called Apple and their support ended at "well, we did our job by getting you to the BootCamp partition" which is a crock.  It's their design to take out the optical drive and now it's everyone else's problem!  Sorry, I know I've got attitude but I'm so frustrated!!
    Thanks in advance!  I'm posting this here and in bootcamp discussion.

    Hatter helped me out without even knowing he helped me out.  In cruising through the archives, he advised another problem seeker to unplug everything except 1 monitor, a mouse and a keyboard.  Which I did and that solved my problems at last.  I also burned my .iso file to a DVD with my MBP and it was able to be read by the external HD.  So keep searching the forums peeps, your answer may be there after all! 

  • IMac internal optical drive reads and plays cd's but DVD's spin for a few moments then eject. Then any drive utility access results in the spinning wheel of doom. Then the optical drive doesn't show up anywhere until a restart. OSX 10.6.8 - Intel Core 2

    iMac internal drive locks up after trying to play a DVD. CD's work properly. All preference settings are correct. I have tried several different DVD's that work in other drives. Drive is : HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA11N. After spinning wheel of doom goes away, so does the optical drive in Disk Utility and System Profiler and no disks work because the drive isn't there until a restsrt. Any ideas? Thanks.

    The battery alone is a $5 to $15 part.  Hard drives vary in cost, and depending on the iMac, they may or may not be able to install a third party hard drive, or one resold through Apple.    The resold through Apple drives tend to cost more.  This article discusses the varying successes of third party drives on iMacs:
    http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-im acs 
    The labor costs depend on the store as well as the time to get the parts in stock.    Call around.

Maybe you are looking for