Optical Drive won't stay shut/accept a disc

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Optical Drive won't stay shut/accept a disc

All of a sudden. Burned a disc, was going through some photo CDs doing some image harvesting and then it started spitting out the disc(s) immediately. When I shut down, the tray still won't stay closed. Always something … nothing new has been installed software- wise, other than downloading the recent iTunes and Safari upgrades.

G5, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jun 18, 2010 1:25 PM

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BDAqua

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Jun 18, 2010 1:48 PM in response to Kevin McFadin

Hi Kevin, any young kids around? Could something have been inserted on the drive?

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Kevin McFadin Author

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Jun 18, 2010 1:51 PM in response to Kevin McFadin

Nope. It's at work, no kids, no body but me. I tried a new/blanks disc and it spit it out {I burned one this morning}. I tried discs I have used repeatedly for a long, long time and the same problem. There's been no trouble inserting or removing discs recently at all. In fact, I burned a whole bunch of discs yesterday lickety-split. With no problem. All of a sudden … I'm in the quagmire …

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BDAqua

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Jun 18, 2010 2:24 PM in response to Kevin McFadin

I suspect the drive has given up...

http://eshop.macsales.com/staticpages/Framework.cfm?page=superdrive/sdl_powermacg5.html

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