System keeps continously checking cd rom drive

Hi..I have a g3 ibook 700 with combo drive..For whatever reason I dont know it keeps activating or checking the cd rom drive whether theres a disk in it or not...its running 10.3.9
and does it even while in sleep mode about every 3 minutes....any info on this greatly apprec..thank you

Jeffro Richards...
Do you have any game or educational software installed on the machine that requires a CD/DVD to be used?
Back some years ago I had a problem with the included software - World Book, which came with my eMac. One of the first bugs I had with the software is it would not allow my eMac to stay asleep. I would hear some access noise 3 or 4 minutes into sleep and the eMac would wake up. I just gave up and shutdown the machine in haste, thinking I was up against a brick wall.
Once I got more up to speed with Mac OS I learned of little helper thingies called Daemons (Daemons : A program or process that sits idly in the background until it is invoked to perform its task.) I now suspect there was a bug within something like that.
Now consider this for example, iTunes installs iTunesHelper to be ready to pick up on an audio disk. I do not suspect iTunes in your case but that is found in your System Preferences / System - Accounts / Your Account / Startup Items. Perhaps something is supposedly to be lurking in the background and it may have a furball causing your issue.
Barring that possibility, it could be possible an internal switch could have lost some factory adjustment, giving an errant signal something has been inserted into the optical. Expansion or contraction of working or sleeping could be an influence.
...Ron

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After three weeks, you deserve a reply. Windoze does
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If the CPU or the Motherboard or the RAM too got broken... simply it NEVER should run... on the contrary two times it worked very well!... with a broken Motherboard or CPU??? ...mmmm... so strange....
If the RAM got broken... how is this possible? 6 ram modules burned together??? It seems so absurd... (in past there were 8 RAM modules... one or two got broken... so I removed them and it worked again... but not 6 !!!!).
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What is happening here??? I don't understand! I use computers (instable DOS/Windows computers mainly!!!) form about 18 years... never seen a so strange behaviour!!!
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