For the last 10 months I’ve been slowly driven insane by the DVD Drive on my PC spinning up too frequently. It spins up when it really shouldn’t; i.e. playing songs in Itunes, loading Live TV in Windows Media Center. Though the most annoying instance of unwanted spin up has got to be when I save my coop game in Dead Rising 2 – my PC locks up while the DVD Drive does its own thing and then the other player is booted. Grr!

I finally decided to start looking into this over the last few weeks and tried various different things with the hope of stopping the bloody thing from having a mind of its own. Here’s what I tried:

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It’s the 29th October and I am making my first entry for the month. Why have things been so dead around here? Weeeeell, that’s because I’ve been ‘Gagaing’ around in Dead Rising 2 since the 28th September and it’s been a hugely addictive experience. Not because of all of the different novel ways to mutilate zombies, no, it’s because of all the different ways I can ruin serious cut scenes in coop games!

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