Is my Duo dying?

[Savory Cade]

I'm worried about my poor Duo. It's been making some high-pitched "tweating" sounds on some games when the CD accesses, most notably Lords of Thunder.

So is my Duo's CD drive dying? I've had no problems with dropped audio or increased access time, just the noises. I let the LoT intro sequence run for 3 hours and then played it and there was no problem at all except for the access noise. I'm not sure what else to do to test it.

I'd like to get it region modded, but if my CD-ROM is going to die soon, it wouldn't be worth it.

Any help or advice would be appreciated, thanks.

[grahf]

Is it a short high pitched almost scratchy noise? If so, i get the same noise when i play some of my backup copies. I just addributed it to the disks being harder to read... hopefully its just your lens in need of a cleaning.

[Savory Cade]

Yeah, kinda, it's a little more whine than scratchy though. The LoT disc is the original. There's only 3 CD-R games I play in it and oddly those sound fine.

What's the best way to clean it? Q-tip and alcohol?

Thanks