17" G4 Super Drive swap out problem.
I swapped out my old superdrive in my 17" G4 with a working one from a 17" MacBook Pro. It fits and the cable connects fine. The Powerbook now just beeps when I turn it on and does not power up. Is there something else I need to do to get the G4 to recognize the drive?
I would think it is the same compatibility problem you would have swapping a Windows PC drive with an Apple drive. Powerbooks are PPC and MacBook Pros are Intel procesors.
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HI,
I have a MacBook Pro(2.4Ghz Santa Rosa Model) and a MacBook (2.16GHz).
The Optical drive in the MBP is dead and will not accept any disks. I think it has had some physical damage as there is something that blocks the disc from going in. On the Macbook the super drive has hardly been used and is almost new. Never has a disc been inserted into it. I plan to swap the two drives which means that i want to take out the drive from the MB and install it in my MBP and vice versa. Can anyone advise if this is possible.The Apple Service Center claims this is not possible as they have different slots. I am not sure that makes sense. So can anyone advise on this, please!The units themselves have slightly different housings - I don't think the one from the MB will physically fit in the MBP.
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Super Drive spits out un-recorded DVD´s
The Super Drive ( MatshitaDVD-R UJ-816 ) on my 15" PB G4 for som reason keeps spitting out un-recorded DVD´s of the following type, which according to its specifications it is compatible with:
-R, -RW
-R, -RW
It will however accept recorded DVD´s. Anyone know why or what can be done about this?I have the computer and drive.
and also the same problem...
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The super Drive in my MacMini run out and the SD card slot reader, too!
What could I do?
Mountain Lion
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA32N:
Revisión del firmware: KC08
Interconexión: ATAPI
Soporte de grabación: Sí (unidad enviada por Apple)
Caché: 1024 KB
Leer DVD: Sí
Grabar CD: -R, -RW
Grabar DVD: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Estrategias de escritura: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Soporte: Para mostrar las velocidades de grabación disponibles, introduzca un disco y seleccione Archivo > Actualizar información.
Excuse my English!Hello,
Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
In fact, do 3 in a row, takes a bit of time.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
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How do I find my lost preferences! (after hard drive swap-out
I replaced my bay 2/3 mirrored drives with larger drives, then copied over the data from one of the old drives from bay 4. My problem is I now have just a generic desktop, all my: dock and web preferences are missing, my copy of fetch wants a serial number. All my data is there but someone things are mixed up. Here's exactly what i did:
In bay 1 I have the original drive, which has all my applications, etc.
In Bays 2/3 I had two 500gb drives with my documents (mostly photos). This set up got too small so I bought 2 x 1 tb drives.
I placed the two new drives in bay 2/3 and one of the old 500gb drives in bay 4.
I turned on the computer and formated the 2 new drives as mirrored. I then dragged/copied of my documents from bay 4 to 2/3.
All works, all is there on the drives but I get a generic "dock", and all my preferences in firefox, etc. are missing, just generic copies of the software.
Also, when I tried to open "fetch" it asked me for my serial number, although other software, such as Lightroom open fine (although it does not automatically open to my Lightroom library).
i have tried restarting the computer several times, to no help. I've also tried logging out but this also does nothing. <<<<<<<<<<
I'm sure I made some mistakes doing this, like I didn't un-raid the old drives first.
Thanks, ronPreferences are not located in the Documents folder. You need to copy a lot more stuff:
Folders You Can Move to Your new Mac
From the Home folder copy the contents of Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
For FireFox:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/FireFox
/Home/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
Credit goes Macjack for this information.
You may need to copy other folders in Applications Support for you applications. -
Internal super drive cannot burn DVD from iDVD
I using MacBook pro 15" from 2010, when I using iDVD brun my DVD when the process go to multiplexing the disc kick out from super drive cannot complete the burning, but I used another mac to burn is work, I think is my Macbook pro super drive got a problem, so how can I fix the super drive problem, I try to download the super drive framware 3.0 but got the message said the update not for my macbook pro, I buy the new extenal super drive, go the message the super drive not support for my mac, I really need help. please please.
See Bengt Wärleby's post in this topic: Multiplexing Error
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums. -
Can I swap out my Combo drive for a Super drive?
Hey guys,
I have 1GHz G4 iMac Dual USB & was wondering if I could replace the Combo Drive with a "Super" Drive.
Any ideas?Ben,
You can do it, but do you really want to? I think an external is a better option. Having two DVD drives is a huge advantage. It makes copying DVDs a snap.
Here's the link to how to change the drive. It will give you a look at what your in for if you attempt it.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/iMacg4/imacg4takeapart.html -
Thinkpad Edge S430 - Swapping out optical drive for HDD?
Hi There
I just ordered myself an S430 with a 128gb SSD HDD included. I didn't see an option to replace the optical drive with a secondary HDD (e.g. a 500gb) so have the optical drive in as standard. Now, I would have rather changed this out for a secondary HDD or for a Blu-Ray drive, thinking I could do this myself once bought...Looking at other posts it looks like you can swap out the optical drive for a Blu-Ray drive, although I would preferably get a secondary drive over the Blu-Ray, but I'm hesitant over a few things:
Is this possible to do myself (swapping out for either secondary HDD or blu-ray drive) without voiding the warranty? (I got it with 2 year warranty)
Is it actually possible to do at all? (swapping out for a secondary HDD)
Thanks
Solved!
Go to Solution.Unfortunately, I have found no hard drives that are compatible for your optical bay. I do believe the reason you can change out your optical drive is to change to a blue-ray or CD, or DVD, maybe a player or burner. But like I said, I have found no hard drive that can fit in your optical drive. You may be able to find what I could not but I have been looking all over the web.
I know how you feel, my computer at home can not have any hard drives in the optical bay as well.
Best regards,
Alex
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Hi, i have a small issed ever since i owned this desk top. whenever i do an update it always tels me thatThere was a problem installing this update to your super drive?
Hey bdkj,
What I meant was I copied back the user/cindy/library/mail folder contents from the laptop backup so as to resurrect my Mail boxes, accounts, emails.
bdkj I emptied & trashed the caches as you suggested, still no luck.
I've also noticed as soon as Mail starts to lock up and show declining 30gigs on my drive, I disconnect the internet, quit Mail and my laptop seems to come back to normal. One weird thing...during the Mail glitch when I watch my drive drop from 30gig available to 28 to 25...once Mail is closed and I go on with word processing, browsing, my drive numbers come back up to the 30gigs actually available. Is this weird or what? The entire Mail crap out/quit Mail/drive returns to 30gigs all takes about 2 minutes to transpire. Thank you
Cindy -
I recently had to swap out my iphone 4s and I am having problems restoring photos and videos from icloud. When I restored my phone from icloud, half of my pics and videos have been deleted, the pics that were restored on my phone are very blurry, and the videos won't play. I get a message on my phone that says " the URL you are requesting is not found on this server". I have erased and reset my phone twice, but every time I do it, more pics and videos are deleted. I have backed up to icloud and iphoto, however, some of the pics are no longer on iphoto either. Is there someway to get the videos to play on my phone again? Make the photos not as blurry as they are now and to restore the pics and videos that have been lost? I really would love to have them back, this phone is supposed to be the best and right now it doesn't seem to be. Please help if you can.
I too have noticed that once i restored from iCloud. Pictures blurry and videos wont play!
Need help too!! -
I can't burn a dvd using any method, idvd tells me that my super drive is missing, dvd studio pro quits when i click burn and disk utility keeps spitting the disk out when I click burn and enter the disk??? how do i repair my superdrive for imac, or how do I do whatever I need to do to get it working: I have already tried using a lens cleaning cd and also restored my nvram or something i forget what it was called but i restarted my computer holding down command+optoion+p+r and still nothing???
Free solutions are the best, although if I have to pay I will, I would prefer to not have to buy an external burner if possible and already know that is an option so please don't give me that answer... thank you for any help you can giveUnless your iMac is still covered by AppleCare, get an external DVD burner.
You can get perfectly good ones from Amazon for less than $40. -
how do I get a disc out of my super drive when I forgot to eject it from the drive before pulling out the USB cable ?
How force eject disc: Apple Support Communities
Mac Mini: Eject DVD Apple Support Communities -
I currently have a mbp 2.3 gighuz intel core 7 16 gig of ram with two internal hard drives ( took super drive out) which for a video editor like myself is a dream I can edit video anywhere, my question can I order a new mbp with 2 internal flash drives?
I wouldn't think so because the newer ones with Retina displays don't have an internal SuperDrive that can be replaced. Therefore the newer logic boards wouldn't have the two SATA/SATA Express connections on the logic board.
At least that was the case as of 2012. I've seen newer ones and they also don't have a SuperDrive. -
or is there some sort of built in protection against this.
In addition, if you are talking about an older machine like a G4 or earlier with PATA drives, the Mac Pro uses SATA drives, so this is not a simple swap out, but if there's room an adapter like this might work in that situation:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/TPASA/
so that you could use the drive in the new computer to copy the data files, not for booting the OS.
If you need to transfer files from one machine to the other, you could do this over a network, or use FW target drive mode, or get a universal bare drive cable adapter.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U3NVSPATA/ -
My Power MAC G5 has a peculiar problem. The monitor fails to report until the machine is started and shut down 5 or 6 times. Once it has booted it can be restarted without incident from the Apple menu. I have swapped out all of the hardware. Monitor, Memmory,Video Card and reset the PRAM. After resetting the PRAM it booted on the first attempt and I thought it was solved. But the next day it was back to starting and stopping until the Monitor came on. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks
It could be a bad PRAM battery corrupting your PRAM. Typically when I have monitor issues on startup it is a bad PRAM battery.
Texas Mac Man's PRAM, battery, PMU tutorial - https://sites.google.com/site/macpram/mac-pram-nvram-cuda-pmu-battery-tutorial
Apple's PRAM reset directions - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
If you have a digital multimeter you can check the condition of your present battery. It should read at least 3.2V if it is the 3.6V half-AA battery type. A new battery provides 3.67 Volts DC. A bad battery provides under 3.2 Volts DC. Ideally this should be measured while the battery is under load; added recommendation from Hans777:
>I have recently found out that an exhausted battery will still indicate >3.6 V with a high internal resistance VM.
>
>Checking incircuit: powercord disconnected press PMU reset button for >about 5 sec before measuring.
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>Checking outside: load the battery with a 1500 Ohm resistor when measuring.
Alternatively, test the battery while it is still in the computer.
If the battery is more than 5 years old, especially if you totally disconnect the computer from the power regularly, or have left it unplugged for several months at one time, it is likely the battery is dead.
Sometimes you have to do a more intensive reset of hardware management:
[Resetting Cuda/PMU on Power Mac G5, Power Mac G4, Power Macintosh G3|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939]
[How to reset the SMU on a Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) or Power Mac G5 (Late 2005)|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1436]
[iMac G5: How to Reset the SMU|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1767]
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