hi, my HP Pavilion laptop is acting up.
lately the DVD-Rom just pops open randomly as though it has a mind of its own.
usually, when i power up it pops open, and then throughout when working it'll just open randomly.

please help.
thanks,
Amer

What is the exact Pavilion model?

Have you run the HP diagnostics?

hi. thanks for you reply regarding my problem about the DVD drive of my laptop opening up automatically.

I have an HP Pavilion zx5000
specs are as follows:

3.0 Ghz
512 Ram
60 GB HDD

not too sure what you meant by HP Diagnostics.
please help.
it's popping open more often now. it's so annoying. especially when i'm trying to watch a movie and it pops out the damn DVD! argh!

Links from HP. The last one is the diagnostic program.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...&lang=en&cc=us

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...369808&lang=en

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...e=8517&lang=en

Also when you say "lately" do you have any idea what might have caused this?

Any new hardware or software? Have you tried a System Restore to a point prior to the problem?

It sounds like there are two possible problems. One, the eject button is stuck on the drive itself.

Or two sub-problems software-wise. You could have a program on your computer that randomly opens the cd-door (its even possible to open the door via HTML, which probably wouldn't apply here as it takes a bunch of hassle to be able to create an exe file from html and its related technologies). Or, and I know this from experience, some stupid script-kiddie is hacking you via a trojan horse they somehow implanted on your computer. There are tools out there that gives someone access to your computer and can open your drive. You could get Avast virus scanner and check. You could also go offline and see if it occurs again.

But, more than likely its a stuck eject button or some program running in the background.

This happens because of a faulty door switch that detects when the drive is closed. See this thread for an easy way to fix it http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...80#post3382180