My cd will not eject after burning a playlist. I've tried every single thing I've found. I also spilled a little coffee on my macbook recently and I'm wondering if this messed up the cd drive and how to ever get it out.
Mac Pro
Here is the troubleshooter:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2097
Coffee is not the best material for coating a MacBook. But getting the CD out may or may not be related.
Here is the troubleshooter:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2097
Coffee is not the best material for coating a MacBook. But getting the CD out may or may not be related.
lkj33 wrote:
I also spilled a little coffee on my macbook recently and I'm wondering if this messed up the cd drive
Perhaps. If the eject mechanism is shorted out/dead,nothing will happen.
See this -> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3861923?start=0&tstart=0
Everything with my macbook has worked just fine since the coffee spill (although the screen did go black at the time)... I'm just wondering if I want to even ask about the cd drive at a genius bar appointment because there might be more wrong and it might be costly if it's coffee related. I might be content to just not have the cd drive work.
Thanks Chris... I've tried the 5 things on that list near the top and more with no luck.
If you depend on a CD drive a lot, and are afraid of possible big price consequences, one option would be to consider a superdrive. At least you would know the price and achieve a CD capability.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD564ZM/A/apple-usb-superdrive?find=superdrive
thanks! i didn't even know there was such a thing as a superdrive. i guess i can see at a genius bar if they can get a cd out right there? an estimate of a repair cost isn't good enough for me because i have no $... still paying off most of the macbook cost anyway so it will be a long time before i get a new one.
Yes, they may well be able to eject the CD at the Genius Bar.
The Superdrive has been around for about six years - since the MacBook Air came out. The MacBook Air (which I own) has no CD drive included. To do anything with a CD, you must either use a Superdrive (which I do), or "borrow" another computer's CD drive.
I always wondered if there was a solution to the macbook air problem having no cd drive... I see that a superdrive plays and can burn cds... I'm assuming it also uploads the cd into itunes... that's what i want because i have so many cds i want to put back on itunes after losing all of them a few years ago.
I'll definitely take it to the genius bar then and see if they can do anything right there. I've tried every single thing. Hopefully they can tell me that if my macbook is otherwise fine several weeks after a coffee spill then i have nothing to worry about.
Don't buy a Superdrive without confirming that it will work with your Mac. I quote from a recent post by David Empson in Usenet:
1. Without modifying either OS X or the hardware in the drive, it can
only be used on Macs which were supplied by Apple without a built-in
optical drive (with one exception - some Mac Mini generations where
there was a mixture of models with and without optical drives).
In particular, you can't use it on a Mac where you had removed the
optical drive to install another hard drive, nor on one where the
built-in optical drive has died in some way, nor on a non-Mac.
2. It needs more than 500 mA from the USB port, so even if you make a
modification to get around the host model check, it will still only work
when plugged directly into a built-in USB port on a Mac which is able to
recognise Apple peripherals and supply more than 500 mA on request,
which was a new feature in most Mac models from Mid 2007 (the Mac Mini
didn't get that feature until Early 2009).
(My emphasis.) I can't answer for the accuracy of all this, but obviously you should bear it in mind.
My cd will not eject. I've tried every single thing I've found on google. I also spilled a bit of coffee on my macbook recently, not sure if that did anything to the cd drive.
