Hi folks
I think I need to replace the DVD drive on my 1GHz TiBook. It wouldn't accept
disks so I took the TiBook apart to see if something in the drive mechanism was
jamming. It no longer jams - but now disks won't stay in.
The drive is a Matshita DVD-R UJ-815. I don't want to spend huge
On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
Hi folks
I think I need to replace the DVD drive on my 1GHz TiBook. It wouldn't accept
disks so I took the TiBook apart to see if something in the drive mechanism
was jamming. It no longer jams - but now disks won't stay in.
Did you remove
Is it pulling them in and then pushing them back out or are they falling out?
If the former, I'd suspect that the alignment with the slot is still not
right or something's pressing against the eject switch (which some of these
slot loaders do have) to make it kick it back out.
The drive
On Jan 6, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
I think the hardware gods are against me today. I tried putting the
recalcitrant drive into my Pismo (it's easier to put drives into Pismo's
removable module than it is into the TiBook) to see if I'd cleared the
mechanism.
No joy - and now
Any ideas on how to destick this baby - and how not to offend the hardware
gods further?
Wow...when I've sinned that badly against the hardware gods, I do penance far
far away from computers for a day or two, and partake of beer and fishing or
something similarly less technologically
On Jan 6, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
My penance will be 3 days of backing up, nuking and paving then reinstalling
and restoring my dad's XP box next week. He's managed to hose the OS
**again**. Oh for a PC equivalent of CarbonCopyCloner. I could do the
installation with the
There is this ... see what people using them have to say...
Thank you!
If I recall correctly, Bruce, you had examples of why formatted emails are
**BAD**. Could you either repost them or send them on to me directly so I
can show my dad the nasties that can lurk in email, please?
On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
Irony of ironies (or perhaps not) it's all the Microsoft-hosted BPOS account
from our UA central mail service...reason 4,876 I'm so grateful that we run
our own email servers here at the College. OUR server catch all the spam and
viruses.
