On 4/12/02 2:30 PM Paul Korntheuer edified us all by writing:
>
>Intermittently (don't ya just love that word when troubleshooting problems),
>when I place either an audio CD or a CD-ROM in the DVD drive, the PB will
>freeze up. No way out except to do a three finger statute. The freeze will
>kick in within seconds upon shutting the DVD tray shut.
Paul - do a check with Apple System Profiler and see which model of
DVD/CDROM drive you have. If your vendor ID is LG, that version has a
history of over time gradually going bad. Mine started out gradually, but
then it got more and more frequent until iTunes would freeze up if I put
an audio CD into the drive (didn't trust trying it with my few DVDs). If
you are at all within warranty (original? or AppleCare extended), get the
drive to your nearest Apple service provider ASAP! If you're lucky, Apple
will replace it with the other (forgot the name) brand. If you're a
little less lucky (like my experience), if you're under some kind of
warranty you will at least get a working LG DVD/CDROM drive and the
problems will go away (for maybe another couple of years or so).
But don't put it off, as my experience was that the problem didn't go
away; it just began to get a little bit worse with time.
HTH,
Jim Rohde
The secret to staying calm in a crisis
is in not knowing all the facts.
-Lefty, from "The Lives of the Cowboys"
(on NPR)
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