Dell Inspiron 1525 Defective

Here's what my laptop does.

It doesn't play DVDs. I try 10 times and then it successfully plays a DVD, but the first few tries it freezes up after 1 preview.

It makes a clicking noise on the inside at any given time during use. It makes me think it's sitting at a bad angle, so I move it around. I don't think that's the problem; I sit it flat.

It is starting to make a notification sound and in the bottom right task bar an icon appears briefly saying "Safely remove hardware". No plugs are in besides the charger. It repeats briefly and then stops for a little while.

 

Try re-seating the optical drive. If that doesn't help than maybe your optical drive is defective.

 

i was having the same issues with my dell inspiron 1525. here are my fixes:

1) to stop that deathly annoying "safely remove hardware" icon from appearing and disappearing for no reason...remove the plastic card that is in the SD/MMC slot. it stopped it with mine.

2) i cant play dvds on the regular windows media player either. however, as a "fix" i downloaded the "media player classic" from www.download.com for free. im able to play dvds with that.

hope that helps!