Optical drive needs to be 'woken' up

Just had my logic board replaced a couple of weeks ago. Not sure if that's related to my current problem or not.
Basically, my optical drive works fine right after startup or right after coming out of sleep. Those are both occasions when you can hear the optical drive make that 'check to see if anything's in there' sound.
If my computer sits around for ten minutes or so, then the optical drive sort of goes offline. If I put a disc in, it doesn't get sucked in. I can make it work by opening disk utility, system profiler (and then highlighting for disc burning details) or by hitting the eject button. Any of those actions causes the drive to make that 'check to see if anything's in there' sound and then will pull in the disc that's sitting part of the way in.
Everything seems to work fine after that, unless the computer sits around for a while without using or communicating with the optical drive.
I did reset the SMC and that did not fix the problem, unfortunately. It's the same when logged in as a different user and when booted from an external disc as well.
Is there anything else I can try? Having just been without my computer for a couple of days, I'd hate to send it in again. Guess I was hoping there's something else I could do to fix the issue.
Any input would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I ended up getting my logic board replaced again and that fixed the problem. Apparently the first logic board they put in was defective.

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