Clicking from my optical drives

[DreamThrall]

Whenever I try and play a CD from either of my optical drives, I get this odd clicking sound. It happens as well if I am playing an MP3 and reading data from an optical drive as well. Any ideas why this is happening?

 

[blahblahblah]

Unnatural noises from anything mechanical is usually a sign of impending death.

Death Probability: :x:x:x:x:x

 

[DreamThrall]

Haha... thanks.

The clicking comes from the speakers though, not from the drives.

 

[blahblahblah]

Haha... thanks.

The clicking comes from the speakers though, not from the drives.

Speakers?

Death Probability: :x:x

Double check to make sure all of your cables are securely plugged into your optical drives.

 

[DreamThrall]

Should I be using those audio cables that plug directly into the sound card, or is the IDE interface fine?

 

[blahblahblah]

Should I be using those audio cables that plug directly into the sound card, or is the IDE interface fine?

IDE interface is fine. Those audio cables are useless.

 

[Asus]

Although if you ever play Audio CDs, the audio cables pass the sound directly to the card without using extra system resources. But I never do that nor do too many others.

The optical drive itself is clicking? No, that is not a good sign. hehe
Is it a memorex drive?

 

[DreamThrall]

No, the clicking is coming from the speakers, not the optical drives. One's a Sony CD-RW, the other is a TDK DVD+R/W, and it happens with both of them.

 

[Asus]

Ah I passed right over that.
That makes scense as to why the audio cable was brought up.

 

[DreamThrall]

That makes scense as to why the audio cable was brought up.

Aye... so.... any ideas?

 

[DreamThrall]

Bump... could this be some sort of odd memory / processor / transfer speed problem? I've never had this problem before, and then it started happening after my last reformat.

I don't think it has anything to do with my optical drives' ability to transfer audio data, since it happens if I'm playing an MP3 file from the HD and transfering non-audio data from a CD at the same time. This is driving me nuts, PLEASE HELP!