Initialization error [-70012] on my dvd player

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jappy 731 Author

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Initialization error [-70012] on my dvd player

My dvd player is missing. When I click on my dvd player, initialization error appears. Can anybody help me?

iMac G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11), 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Dec 14, 2008 1:14 AM

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Joe Co

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Dec 14, 2008 10:21 AM in response to jappy 731

It's possibly a hardware fault - looking at other threads, external, non-standard or broken drives can cause this. Have you tried VLC instead? I reckon that's your best bet. If it doesn't work in VLC either then it's a deeper problem.

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BDAqua

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Dec 14, 2008 12:08 PM in response to jappy 731

Hi jappy 731, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

Good advice from Joe so far, it very well may be the player is shot, but might see this thread...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4060448

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jappy 731 Author

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Dec 14, 2008 4:43 PM in response to Joe Co

Thanks Joe Co for your reply on my concerns. Just to give more information what happened before i got that message. We watched a movie using my dvd player and i believe that the disc is still inside, after watching I forgot to eject the disc and left my computer unattended for awhile when suddenly, a power failure occurred. I started my computer again and the disc icon on my desktop is gone, I opened my dvd player there goes the error. My slot is locked...Is there anyway I can have my dvd player back. Thanks

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Joe Co

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Dec 14, 2008 4:55 PM in response to jappy 731

No worries 🙂

Strange that it won't eject. Have you tried restarting, and holding the eject key during the chime, until the spinning gear appears. (I've also read that the holding the left - or only - mouse button does the same thing - try that if the eject key doesn't work).

That should force an eject.

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jappy 731 Author

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Dec 15, 2008 12:11 AM in response to Joe Co

Yes I also read that tip before while I was researching for some answers and tried it myself but nothing happened.

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