MAC keeps ejecting my CDS

Hello Fallout NV

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To begin your computer is an Intel iMac not a G5, the last G5's were built in 2005 and will not run 10.6 Snow Leopard. I will ask the host to move your thread to the Intel iMac section of the Forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=189

You do not say what brand of blank CDs you are currently using, so it's hard to recommend anything more than resetting the PRAM and trying another brand.

1. Reset the iMac's Pram, see > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

2. Try a different brand in a 5 or 10 pack.

Then if your Superdrive is still not working properly, you will need to contact Apple Support or your Apple Store and take the iMac in for service.

Dennis

My imac is doing the same disc keeping popping out and not being read very frustrating considering not even 2yrs old.. My pc that i use at wrk more then my mac @ home has been running more 4yrs+ and had only 1 minor repair needed. This is my first mac and is going to be my last!!! even costumer service is crappy.

Hi - my CD drive will not burn disks, as after clicking Burn it somehow locks them, and after 4 or 5% of burning will throw up an error message and then say it cannot burn a locked disk - which indeed shows as locked, even though it was not to begin with. Any ideas?

Thanks to a very helpful Apple Genius Bar expert, I have just saved over £100. After reading this forum I tried everything suggested to get my superdrive to accept my DVDs and to get my iDVD to produce a slideshow. After two weeks of frustration I took the whole iMac to the shopping mall. The genius reached into the counter draw and held a can of compressed air.After a minute of squirting the air into the dvd slot all my prayers had been answered. He told me that cleaning the drive like this work on about a third of all his clients. I have now bought a can of compressed air from Amazon for £4 and have it ready for the next problem the arises. (I have tried the same technique on the unruly kids, but it does not seem to work on them!)

Hurrah - many thanks for the compressed gas hint. One day later it reached the point where not only would it not record, and burn, but no old audio or other CDs were recognised; one can of gas, squirted through the slot, and all problems have disappeared. Success!

How long did you squirt the compressed air? 10 seconds, a minute. The entire can?