On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Cristobal Palmer wrote:
I think the problem is not where you think it is. It's much more likely that the laser is dirty and that the drive doesn't realize it's seeing a valid disk.
Hmm. I gave up getting it to accept a disk. I'm now trying to just close the tray so that I don't whack it as I walk past. Does your theory still apply if there's no CD?
I certainly could give the laser a wipe with windex and kleenex.
It's popping back open because it's spitting out what it thinks is an invalid disk. Does your box have dusty, grimy innards?
no it's pretty clean and I leave the cover off so I can get at it easily - there's no dust bunnies and I give it a whiz around with a shop vac whenever need to change hardware etc. So all the fans/cables are clean.
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