Hi all.
I wasn't sure where this should go so I put it under Other, feel free to move it if it's not in the right section.
When I'm using my DVD-RW drive whilst playing games from a CD or DVD or WATCHING a DVD, if I leave it for more than a minute or so whilst, for example, the game or movie is paused, then it spins down and then has to spin back up when I unpause.
This is quite annoying, because the movie then skips frames for maybe 20 seconds when I play again whilst the drive gets back up to speed, and it's the same with games.
I've looked in the options of the program I use to play DVDs (Cineplayer or PowerDVD), and the properties of the DVD drive, and in Control Panel, and I haven't found anything relating to this.
Is this just a built in POWER saving feature (it's a laptop) or can I change this? It happens when running on battery and when plugged in with or WITHOUT the battery.
It's quite a slow drive so I'm buying a faster EXTERNAL drive soon, but until then I'l have to use the built in one.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.Laptops have all kinds of power saving features, for obvious reasons, so I would look in Power Options in Control Panel and see if something there can be adjusted for starters.Nothing about the DVD drive in Power Options
I also changed the power scheme to Always On from Max Battery, but it made no differenceAre there any power options in the BIOS ? ?

Careful in there...There are in fact very few options in the BIOS - date/time, password protection, legacy USB support and AMD PowerNow is about it
Nothing about DVD drives, ALTHOUGH you can change a few things like the DMA mode and PIO mode