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Ok turned off Mcafee and fiddled with the media keys--nothing. It appears unrelated to these. I shall run a few trials to get an idea of the current battery life of the machine. If the hours are down on what ACER claim (and I shall only be surfing web and emailing) then I'm assuming the actuator, drive, solenoid or whatever the little sucker is that wont stay asleep, is draining the battery. I'll do another trial with the drawer open to see if battery life is different and if it is I'm shunting it back for a warranty job.

Thanks guysI have only installed Photoshop 7 and Office 2003 so far so I doubt that something is accessing the drive unless it is McAfee accessing the drive. It came loaded with Windows. Maybe a dodgy media key. I will investigate when I get back home. I have noticed a slightly sticky/catching right arrow key, so maybe the assembly of the keyboard is a bit dodgy.

4830TG optical drive over-enthusiastic Jumped in with little research and bought this puppy two weeks ago. May have been a bit premature after reading some of these posts. I have noticed that the optical drive regularly and randomly activates. Sounds a bit like R2D2 turning his head. I think its probably the drive for the laser but not 100% on this. I thought perhaps the bios may for some reason have given boot priority to the drive but no it hasn't. I then turned off all the auto play features I could find. No change. I note that 7 times out of 10 when I click on the drive in device manager, I get the noise. I never get the noise if the drawer is open. It doesn't really bother me too much but it doesn't seem right and probably contributes to battery drain. Acer help desk was anything but. None of my previous machines have done this. Any suggestions? Cheers