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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / October 2004CD keeps ejecting
After updating an iMac with 9.2 (from 9.1) I now cannot make a cd stay put in the drive. Even on boot up it ejects the cd before I can use it. I feel silly saying this (because I don't know the name of the style of CD-Rom player) ...but the cd-rom drive is not a tray, rather a slot that you feed the CD into and it is grabbed and pulled the rest of the way in. This will happen but within seconds - out pops the CD again. > After updating an iMac with 9.2 (from 9.1) I now cannot make a cd stay > put in the drive. Even on boot up it ejects the cd before I can use [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > of the way in. This will happen but within seconds - out pops the CD > again. SNIP dunno much, maybe zap the pram, or check apple knowledge base? JB > After updating an iMac with 9.2 (from 9.1) I now cannot make a cd > stay put in the drive. Even on boot up it ejects the cd before I can [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the rest of the way in. This will happen but within seconds - out > pops the CD again. It could be a bad disc - the system auto-ejects media it can't handle, since there would be no other way to get them out. (Apple doesn't like front-panel eject buttons.) If it happens with a lot of discs, then it's probably not a bad disc, but might be a bad drive. But if the drive was working fine before the software upgrade, that's probably not the cause of the problem. Check with Apple to see if there are any available firmware updates available. You can start your search here: http://www.apple.com/support/imac/g3/ Second, if you haven't already done so, update from 9.2 to 9.22. You can download the updater here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75186 Good luck. -- David > > After updating an iMac with 9.2 (from 9.1) I now cannot make a cd > > stay put in the drive. Even on boot up it ejects the cd before I can [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > -- David I should have clarified to save all this time. I did zap PRam (multiple times), I rebulit the desktop, I rebooted, I tried a combination of all of the above. I tried booting without extensions enabled. I tried putting any CD in as it was booting at the very beginning. I am using 9.22 and I have tried multiple different CDs. I can't believe the drive just suddenly stopped working after installing an update. I was already having problems with the computer freezing and locking up. I had already searched through the Apple database. The only thing I can find that closely resembles this problem is a reference to CD drawers having the eject button stuck by something mechanical, i.e. a piece of tape. I also found another reference about updating to OS X and it causing the same problem. And finally, I found a reference about a USB mouse causing the problem. None of these fixes applied or worked. This CD drive is one of the type that does not have a drawer that ejects; it has a simple slot that you put the CD in and the mechanics 'suck' it in. Thanks for the good luck...but it seems like I need valium or something instead. > I should have clarified to save all this time. I did zap PRam > (multiple times), I rebulit the desktop, I rebooted, I tried a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > one of the type that does not have a drawer that ejects; it has a > simple slot that you put the CD in and the mechanics 'suck' it in. Then you probably have corrupt system software. You say that you were already having freeze/lockup problems. I've seen this happen with flaky hard drives. My two low-end Macs - an SE and a Quadra have both needed hard drive replacement in the past. In both cases, the first symptoms of the drive going bad was a series of random crashes/hangs happening with increasing frequency. Use a good disk utility (Disk First Aid comes with MacOS, Tech Tool Pro is also very good) to check out the drive. Boot a CD to run it so the system on your hard drive isn't running when you do this. If you find disk errors, fix them. Then maybe reinstall your system folder (or restore it from a known-good backup, if you have one.) If this works, great. If it doesn't work (problems persist, disk errors develop over time), then you will want to replace the hard drive. -- David |
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