Optical drives during boot up

[redmug100]

Any way of disabling optical drives during boot up? All its doing is making a noise, draing unnesasery power and putting strain on my PSU

[BillyNoMates]

I can't think of a way aside from physically disconnecting their power connectors. Once bootup has completed the drives should basically hibernate unless they are being used. They take very little power at bootup.

[rojash]

You probably have "boot from other devices" enabled in your BIOS settings, so the machine will be checking for the presence of a bootable CD. Changing your BIOS settings will probably solve your problem - though I'd hardly characterise it as putting strain on your PSU!