Re: Most DVDs Won't Play All of a Sudden

2012-03-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
Ok, good news for me. I ran one of those cleaning CDs with the little brushes on it through my drive, and it works fine now. Yay. :) Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Agreed. Or all your

Re: Most DVDs Won't Play All of a Sudden

2012-03-13 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
It's a hardware issue and needs to be resolved by an apple engineer depending on your system. It's happened with 2 machines of mine in 5 years so it's mainly a rogue DVD superdrive. lew On 12 Mar 2012, at 23:33, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, all, In the last month, I've noticed that DVDs

Re: Most DVDs Won't Play All of a Sudden

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Agreed. Or all your DVDs went bad at the same time :) Hopefully whatever is in there isn't scratching up your disks. Another test could be to boot off the installer, launch Disk Utility and then try putting in a DVD. If it won't mount then it's a hardware problem because all the software

Re: Most DVDs Won't Play All of a Sudden

2012-03-12 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hi Teresa, YOu most likely have some kind of hardware issue, probably something stuck in the drive itself. This happened to me and it ended up being a piece of paper. Take your machine to an Apple Store and they can remove it for you. Hope this helps, Kevin Shaw On 2012-03-12, at 7:33 PM,

Re: Most DVDs Won't Play All of a Sudden

2012-03-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oh boy. Ok, thanks, Kevin. I think I'll blame my cats for this. Ok, it could happen. :) Teresa The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete Graham On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote: Hi Teresa, YOu most likely have some kind of hardware issue, probably something stuck in