I had two Pismo DVD-ROMs die on me, one under warrantee one not. Replaced the second one out of pocket buying a second hand one that has been fine so far, been about 6-9 months now.
Many people consider particular revs. of the Pismo DVD-ROM just to be bad but Apple has never said anything and I don't think anyone has really pressured them to. You can find new DVD-ROMs for about $80-150 used, $150+ new or David Wedge is on some of these lists and will give you $50 towards a CDRW or CDRW/DVD-ROM drive module for your Pismo for your old dead DVD. His combo drives are $250 before the money back. David M. Ensteness On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 12:26 AM, [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? > > Eternally grateful for anyone's help, > > Mark -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
