Just a suggestion: buy the best quality CDs or DVDs you
can afford and then back up the disk.
For games or other optical media used often,
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Use The Backup!
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Store the original away where it´s dark.
Read up on the lifetime expectancy (mtbf) of CDs and DVDs.
Defend yourself against crap sales and manufacturing.
Become the real-world tech-warrior equivalent of your game avatar.
BTW, with a little research online, you can replace and even upgrade
an optical drive for an economical price. If you are mechanically inclined.
The only disadvantage is they´re a little noisey when pushing open a G5
door.
No Fear.
Jon
On 08/28/2012 09:00 PM, smac0031 wrote:
I got the DVD drive out of my computer. I gave up holding the whole
computer at various angles and shaking it to get the cd-rom out of it.
Roughly, a little over half of the cd-rom has fallen out of it. The
mechanism in the DVD drive seems to be jammed and only little bits fall out
now.
I am seriously considering using my ship vac next, although the last time I
used my shop vac on my computer I had to buy a new keyboard.
I think this drive is most likely destroyed.
The thing that impressed me the most is when it came apart the clip on
drive door popped open and shot out the the center button bar and it flew
half way across the room
If you will recall, G4's have a door covering their optical drives and the
button is in the center of the door and there is a plastic bar that extends
over to the right where the actual button is on a CD drive to open it.
It might look nice, but it's lame, if you ask me. This bar shot out of my
computer. Disk read error. Maybe Apple's later system software has a very
high level of copy protection that results the disk blowing up and jamming
up your optical drive.
That was my most favorite game ever. I guess I should quit screwing around.
Mark Murphy
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