Disk drive ejects on boot

[Monkey_feces]

So far it only happens to my 2 year old cd-rw drive and never to my 1 year old dvd-rw/cd-rw combo drive. I tried swapping IDE cables and using 2 different IDE ports on my mobo, and it still happens whenever I boot my system.

I haven't tried using a different motherboard since I don't have one available. It's been happening even after I updated my bios twice to the current version number's beta and final and since I swapped from xp to vista and back to xp again. I guess that effectively eliminates software as the culprit.

I suspect it's most likely that my disk drive is crapping out with age, but I could very well be wrong.

 

[engiNURD]

Reload the firmware on the drive? Is there an eject button on your keyboard?

 

[Monkey_feces]

By reloading firmware do you mean update it? If so, my samsung ts h292b doesn't provide any kind of support for software updates. I don't have an eject button on my keyboard.

 

[engiNURD]

If reloading or updating the firmware doesnt fix it, I'm guessing the drive's on its way out. I had a DVD-ROM that would just open and close randomly before (like 10 yrs ago or so), lol.