Very loud vibration from new Mac Mini DVD ROM drive

Good evening all.
I bought a new design Mac Mini 3 days ago. Today I decided to re-install the OS and found the following :-
1. The DVD drive makes a horrendous vibrating noise like an out of balance washing machine.
2. The usual method of booting from DVD ROM is to turn it on whilst holding the C key down. Mine just freezes to a white screen. This is reproducible every time. This boot method method has always worked for my iMac.
3. The alternate method of setting the boot disc in boot disc preferences to boot from DVD ROM worked on the second attempt. The first time it said Its own OS disc was an unformatted DVD ROM.
Anyone else with problems with VERY noisy DVD ROM and/or booting from its own DVD ROM ?
regards
videodrone.

Yeah my new mini does the same thing. Funny thing is that it doesn't d it all the time. I know the other day, I burned a DVD with iDVD which took about 8 minutes. It was so loud That I didn't even thing the DVD would've burned correctly but it burned fine.
I installed Grand Theft Auto 4 when I booted into Windows XP Pro and the Super Drive Went To all sorts of Speeds, but Know Vibration. *It's a random thing, or maybe these superdrive are very sensitive to imperfectly made Discs.* *I have a Late 2006 iMac 17" which is very sensitive to an HP Printer Install disc which vibrated like crazy. But with ALMOST every other disc I throw at it, it burns and spins just fine and quietly.* _It's like putting Regular 87 Octane Fuel into a Lamborghini, it will run terribly unless you put the good stuff/ Higher octane fuel in it._
Luckily or me, *I have a MacBook Air SuperDrive. These Drives do work on all the new Minis*. SO because of that, I'm not going to rush out for a repair right now. Unless I know in advanced that I will be in the same area of the Apple Store ( 25 miles Away / 50 miles round trip) ).
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