on 15/11/02 00:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay - I am new here to the G-Books page and probably asking an old question. > But I > just bought a great little Pismo 400 with 320 RAM, open box - new (no > warranty) from > CompUSA. Everything seemed to work fine for a couple of months until a couple > days > ago. Anywho the LG CD-ROM/DVD won't recognize CD's and the System profiler in > OS > X.2.2 crashes everytime I take a look at the drive specs. If I run the > hardware test I get it to > read 1 CD and then it stops again. Are there driver's posted fro these > GoldStar CD/DVD > drives that enable them to be more reliable? I see a lot of postings on > Apple's web > support pages but everyone basically says "too bad" or "that's a bummer" but > no > answers. The rest of the machine runs like a dream - just no i tunes or the > like. Kinda > aggravating!! Can anyone help me?
The LG drives have been notorious to fail after a little while. At some point, I think Apple was even replacing them for free. Don't quote me on this, though. You might want to start looking for a replacement... Sorry... -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/RV: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:laurent.daudelin@;verizon.net GIGO /gi:'goh/ [acronym]: 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' -- usually said in response to lusers who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data. 2. `Garbage In, Gospel Out': this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have to put excessive trust in `computerized' data. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:G-Books-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:G-Books-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
