2nd DOA optical drive... about to throw the computer out the window

MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   DOA cd-rom drive (again)
I can't believe this. I either have incredibly bad luck, or apple got a bad batch of cd rom drives from their supplier. I bought a macbook pro jan 2, the cd rom was DOA, so i sent it back. Now I have my replacement, and ANOTHER DOA cd-rom drive. Being a student, all this sitting and waiting is killing me. I am calling them tomorrow and we'll see what happens. Of course, if there is a simple fix for my cd-rom drive, please feel free to share. It refuses to read any disks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
This may have to do with the type of media being inserted, whether the media has labels on it, or the media quality.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58641
Note: DVD-R DL is not universally supported. Though DVD+R is much better supported. Note the burn speeds supported by your optical drive in the spec page for the machine:
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html

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