The dvd station in my pc, an Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-5170S is making weird sounds since recently.
What happens is, I put a dvd or cd in the station, as soon as I start browsing the disc something is making a weird ticking sound. It only happens when I, for example, enter a map, and when I move files from or to the disc in that station. When I do nothing, the thing makes no weird noises. It also only lasts as long as Explorer needs to display the content of the map I enter, so when I can see all mapcontent, the sound stops.
I am now afraid something's wrong with it, which could result in damaged discs. Before I put any disc in it again, I want to know what's happening and how I can fix this.
Perhaps an important detail: I recently gave my pc to a person we know who knows an awfull lot about computers etc, because we had connectionproblems and we thought it was pc-related. I can't imagine though he damaged that station as he was mainly focussing on networkcards etc.
Does anybody have some experience with this, or know what I can do to get rid of this?