CD Drive ejects and stays open, closing it spits back out again
Hello All,
I have a 15" Flat panel iMac that keeps ejecting the cd tray. There is no disc in the drive, it just keeps ejecting. Closing the drive does nothing, as 5 seconds later, it opens again.
Keyboards have been swapped-- it is NOT a stuck eject key.
I opened the case and disconnected the IDE cable from the drive, then powered on. It does not eject in this way, thus I have ruled out a stuck eject button on the drive itself.
I have tried target mode and open firmware-- just to see. In both cases the drive does not eject.
It only seems to be opening when I actually boot into OS X. Noticing that I did a complete reformat/install, but the drive still ejects.
Everything else on the computer works fine. Is there anything I might be missing?
Thanks for the suggestion.
I forgot to include that I had performed a permissions repair (several actually) and I even did one on the fresh install after I did all of the appropriate updates. Alas, the drive keeps spitting out at me like a kid giving me the razz.
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