I upgraded my Pismo w/ Tiger and also also did a fresh install on a
Lombard (via putting hd in my Pismo). After installtion, I tried to
put a CD in the drive to install some other software and it won't
recognize that there is a CD in the drive or mount the drive. Same
thing happens on both the Pismo and Lombard.
If I put the Tiger DVD in the drive and reboot, it will recognize
that DVD when it first boots, but if I take it out, put a different
CD in the drive, it won't recognize the CD. I can take the CD out,
put the Tiger DVD back in the drive and it will no longer recognize it.
I tried resetting the NVRAM, no luck. I have tried swapping CD/DVD
drives between the two laptops. The one in my Pismo is just a normal
CD/DVD-ROM, the one in the Lombard is a 2x DVD, according to the
writing on the bottom. Neither one is a burner. Seems strange to me
that the Lombard would appear to have a faster DVD-ROM in it than the
Pismo?
The drive in the Lombard makes loud crunching, clunking sounds when I
insert a CD. Neither will ever mount or recognize in any way that
there is a CD in the drive. I have to push the manual eject button
to get the CD out and it is spinning at full speed when it ejects.
I have tried different CDs and that doesn't seem to make a
difference. This only happened when I upgraded to Tiger (on the
Pismo), it worked fine on all of the 10.3.x versions.
I have all the latest software updates and there aren't any firmware
updates for either laptop. I even tried PatchBurn, but it won't work
if you don't have a burner.
Any ideas? Its getting really frustrating because I can't install
any of my other software, which makes the laptop pretty much
worthless other than email and browsing, which is not the primary
purpose for these machines.
Rad...
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