What causes a cd-rom to click?

1. An improperly installed drive can be out of balance. When you insert a CD and the drive spins up the spinning causes the drive to slightly shake causing the CD tu shift on the spindle.

2. Some of the cheaper drives come put together with a little less quality. Hence the sayin: You Get what you pay for. Thats the big diffrence between a 38$ CR-Rom drive and a 68$ drive

It is merely tring to reset the positioning of the head so it can read info off of the drive. Try another cd and see if it happens again. If the problem persists with other cd's and you know that the cd's are good, then replace the drive.

A clicking cd can be caused by several different items, first, a defective, dirty or scratched cd. The drive is constantly trying to read either through the defect, the dirt or the scratch. The second is a dirty read head. Be careful at what typeof cleaning device you use. Contact the manufacturer for their suggestive cleaning solution. Your auto/home stereo audio cd cleaner will destroy a high speed cd or cd burner.

Also, a cheap high speed cd may have an imbalance problem. The only solution to this is replacement. Check out the cd with another disk. If the new cd stops the clicking, check out the old cd for pits, scratches or dirt.

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