I ran into issue with another Dell system. The only cure was replacing the drive. Yes, it did what you mentioned, but I found no s/w or h/w reason that corrected it. I can only surmise the drive itself was peculiar and never happened again with the replacement. Though, for awhile i figured the kybd. was actively had a "hot key" that did this by touching it but of course, it shouldn't happening as I reverted all basic or std. defaults. On yet another system, this also happened again because of mny Dell experience it went away after replacing the drive and it needn't be a new drive just a different one.
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It maybe the power issue that effects weak electronics on drives, its just omni-ready. Also, the micro sw. could be less than prefect and needs only a juggle to become active. That are also dust clogs at the sw. or seal, never 100% closed. In effect the result of wear&tear on an older drive.
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I have a three-year old (long out of warranty) Dell Dimension E521 with a TSST corp DVD+-RW TS-H653A SCSI CdRom device. I run Vista Home Premium. The problem is the DVD drawer seems to open for no reason. It sometimes happens at start-up, often when I shut the computer down, and sometimes when I?m just surfing the web. It sometimes happens several times in a few minutes, but it can also be fine for a week or so and then start acting up again. I don?t know if this is a hardware or software issue but I ran AVG Free, AdAware, Spybot S&D, Windows Defender, Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter, and the problem remains. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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