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Q: Superdrive suddenly stopped accepting discs

*Suddenly out of the blue*, my superdrive (MATSHITADVD-R UJ-845E), just *stopped working*, it just dont accept any discs.

Is it really as all the quotes and discussions here in Apple´s own site tells... that its just by design - Sorry !

Is there *any firmware to fix this* ?

And the tip about running the hardware-test... my poor Mac just wont accept ANY discs !

PowerBook G4 - 1,67gHz - 2GB ram, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 27, 2009 12:54 PM

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  • by Rick Schoew,

    Rick Schoew Rick Schoew Oct 28, 2009 12:43 PM in response to johannes Winding (Johannes Win
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    Oct 28, 2009 12:43 PM in response to johannes Winding (Johannes Win
    I have the same problem. Suddenly I can't insert a disc. It appears to hit some sort of barrier before it's half way in. Any thoughts?
  • by achin1,

    achin1 achin1 Nov 24, 2009 6:20 PM in response to Rick Schoew
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    Nov 24, 2009 6:20 PM in response to Rick Schoew
    I have suddenly noticed the same problem. CD or DVD stops on insertion. I can force it in and the optical drive (Combo) plays OK and does eject, but the very difficult insertion worries me. Any solution found to CD/DVD insertion problem? My inclination is to take it into the "Geniuses"!
  • by achin1,

    achin1 achin1 Nov 30, 2009 3:41 PM in response to achin1
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    Nov 30, 2009 3:41 PM in response to achin1
    Here's the latest. Took Powerbook into the local Apple Store. "Genius" took the Powerbook into the back room, came out and said I needed a new optical drive. Cost would be in the $300 range! Genius suggested that I check other, independent Mac repair places to maybe get a better price on the replacement.

    Just about decided that an external USB/Firewire optical drive was the preferred choice for an older machine like the Powerbook. Also continued to snoop around the web. Found something that recommended resetting the PMU. Guess what, did that, now CDs and DVDs are sucked into the drive just like they used to be!

    Try resetting PMU!
  • by Donald Morgan,

    Donald Morgan Donald Morgan Dec 2, 2009 6:47 AM in response to johannes Winding (Johannes Win
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    Dec 2, 2009 6:47 AM in response to johannes Winding (Johannes Win
    And here is the link, on how to reset yhe PMU.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431?viewlocale=en_US
  • by brad1st,

    brad1st brad1st Feb 25, 2010 10:54 AM in response to johannes Winding (Johannes Win
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    Feb 25, 2010 10:54 AM in response to johannes Winding (Johannes Win
    I've got a similar problem with my PowerBook G4 1.5ghz. The drive will accept a disc, grind away for a few seconds, then spit the disc out. DVD, CD, doesn't matter. It won't keep a disc in. System Profiler recognizes the drive, but the drive just doesn't work. I'd like to fix this without having to replace the drive. I plan I using this laptop as my music storage/player hooked up to my home theater system.

    any ideas? thanks gang!
  • by eww,

    eww eww Feb 25, 2010 11:58 AM in response to brad1st
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    Feb 25, 2010 11:58 AM in response to brad1st
    Run a cleaning disc through the drive. A large proportion of optical-drive problems are due to nothing more complicated than dirty lenses.
  • by Tim Knight,

    Tim Knight Tim Knight Apr 19, 2010 10:39 AM in response to johannes Winding (Johannes Win
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    Apr 19, 2010 10:39 AM in response to johannes Winding (Johannes Win
    My machine joined in the revolt this morning. Simply won't accept disks. Tried everything including resetting PMU (see earlier) but nothing works.
  • by Tim Knight,

    Tim Knight Tim Knight Apr 20, 2010 11:47 AM in response to Tim Knight
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    Apr 20, 2010 11:47 AM in response to Tim Knight
    Apple works in mysterious ways.

    Was in midst of trying to work out how to reinstall system when checked the disk drive for umpteenth time and it accepted DiskWarrior which then did all sorts of cleanup.

    Perhaps these setbacks are sent to make us better people!