Sony CD-RW having trouble

[bhath19]

I have a Sony CD-RW 8x4x32 that I have had for awhile now. I have had it in my new system for a few months now with no troubles at all. Now, once in awhile, the light that flashes when it is reading or burning a CD starts flashing without a CD in it like it's trying to read the drive even though there isn't anything in it. When it is doing this, my mouse gets choppy when moving it across the screen, obviously whatever is going on is causing conflict or something. Any ideas?

[thronka]

What operating system are you using? Sounds like to me the AutoRun function is trying to read something.

[JPMiller]

Well Im not sure that drive has the ability to be flashed ...sony's website isnt too helpful.
I would blow it out and clean it first and then you could try to look it up and see if you can flash it...could remove it and reinstall too.
Somewhere to start at least.
Think about it, did you install any software or hard ware anywhere around the time you began having problems...it may seem unrelated or trivial but anything like that can have an effect on other components.
Good Luck!
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Thronka is right...more specs could be useful.

[bhath19]

I'm using WinXP and have a Athlon XP 1700 1.47 GHz
256MB RAM w/ a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 Video Card

[JPMiller]

Thronka (because he CARES)...may be onto something.
With winXP you can turn off "autorun" function by clicking on "Start" ... then "Run"... type "regedit" and press enter or return.... and go to the following directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\CDRom
Double click the "Autorun" file and change its value from 1 to Zero. Close out the registry editor and restart. You may want to backup your registry first but realistically your only changing onr entry wich would be easy to undo.
Good Luck!

[bhath19]

Ideally, turning off the AutoRun would be a good idea, but I have another CDROM in this computer too and I want the AutoRun on that one. Is there anyway to turn off AutoRun on just one of the drives?

[JPMiller]

Not that Im aware of...but I would do it just to see if that fixes it or not to rule it out.