I hope someone can help me. I have a just-over-one-year-old (of course) 17" G4 PowerBook with a SuperDrive. After a year of working flawlessly, reading and burning all brands of CD and DVD, yesterday I went to put in a blank CD to backup some data with Toast, and got an unhappy surprise: the disk went in fine, but then the drive clunked twice, and spat the disk out. I tried several other disks -- commercial, self-burned, DVD -- same trick every time: full pull-in insert, two big clunks and disk eject.
I reset PRAM, NVRAM, and the PMU, did the Force Quit, Force Shutdown, Control-Command-Power start -- all the Apple remedies. I'm currently trying to find my original Hardware Diagnostic disks, but if the drive won't accept any other disks, I'm justifiably concerned that it won't accept the diagnostic disks either.
Apple support quoted me a replacement drive price of around $1000 (minus labor), and that' doesn't make me too happy. Any suggestions/previous experience/mantras, etc.?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Yes Check out ESbuy they offer the Matshita drive for $170, and then find some one like me to put it in for you if you don't want to do it your self.
<http://www.esbuy.com/paslsldvuj8.html>
Oh I am sorry that is for the 4X UJ-825 you want the slower UJ-815 which is $15 more from the same source. I just used the UJ-825 to burn a backup of this summers photos, over two gb of data to a DVD disk and checking it out it worked just fine.
Bill
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