topic Re: Noisy when watching dvds in PCs & Accessories

Noisy when watching dvds

sunking101 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:23:28 GMT

The drive in my NR21Z spins at a ferocious pace when I'm watching dvds, totally ruining the experience for me. I have to crank the volume right up and even then it doesn't blot-out the noisy drive. When listening to cds it is relatively quiet. I find this whole laptop noisy, the hard drive and the fan but is there anything I can do about the noisy dvd drive?

Re: Noisy when watching dvds

sonypass33 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:27:37 GMT

If you use Nero there's an option to control the drive speed which would fix this.
I'm sure there are stand alone freeware apps which do the same, try google.

Re: Noisy when watching dvds

tonyfly — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:35:01 GMT

hello, i have your same notebook and your same problem.But i don't have any solution at this problem.i think that is normal for this notebook.Usually i copy the film on hard disk.Is the best solution.

Re: Noisy when watching dvds

tonyfly — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:44:20 GMT

wow!! thanks to P2P2P !!! I have Nero and I have activated this function. And I have solved the problem. :smileygrin: :smileygrin:

Re: Noisy when watching dvds

sonypass33 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:30:34 GMT

No problem, just remember though (it happened to me lol) when transfering stuff to your computer to turn the speed control OFF, otherwise you'll be wondering why is this bloody thing so slow.

Re: Noisy when watching dvds

sunking101 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:37:30 GMT

If you don't have NERO you can download the Toshiba Acoustic Silencer utility from their website (free of charge). I can confirm that this slows the drive down too and works successfully. Result.

Re: Noisy when watching dvds

tonyfly — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:29:50 GMT

good program,but I have windows XP and I can't install it. (p.s. Win XP is a BOMB on this notebook!!!! it runs to the speed of light!!!)