CD/DVD Combo Drive ejects media

You pop in a cd, it pops back out. It doesn't mount to desktop. I have tried different brands and I am using the right CD-R. I zapped PRAM. Any suggestions?

will it take and DVD movies, install discs, music CDs?
try resetting the PMU -
If the computer is on, turn it off.
Reset the power manager by simultaneously pressing and then releasing Shift-Control-Option-Power on the keyboard. Do not press the fn (Function) key while using this combination of keystrokes.
Wait 5 seconds.
Press the Power button to restart the computer.
looking at the age of the computer, might be the drive has finally bit the dust.

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hi all,
I have the following problem with my mac mini:
a)when I enter any movie DVD, it is either ejected in a few minutes, or worse, it just sits in the Drive,(no mounting on the Desktop) and I have to restart (w/ mouse button pressed to eject)
b)any movie CD I enter (recently got brand new PoC-DMC; so no scratches etc on it too) same as (a) above
c)Insert the "Mac OS X Install Disc 1 and Apple Hardware Test" DVD (that came originally with my mac mini), and same as (a) above
d)However, insert the Mac OS X Tiger Upgrade DVD and it WORKS!!!
As of writing this, both Disk Utility and Sys Profiler have hung up. though had the same problem as mentioned above yesterday too, and then Sys Profiler was listing the combo-drive, and Disk utility was not. (as per what i read on some other posts in this forum, that would be proper behavior by the system)
Would appreciate any insights into this.
Thanks
mac mini 1.42GHz PPC G4, 512 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Is there any other means of resetting a hardware
optical drive??
I'm not confident this will work but it's worth a try, it certainly won't damage your machine. Boot into Open Firmware ("Command + Option + O + F" on startup chime) and run 'reset-nvram' followed by 'reset-all'. Then boot into OS X by typing 'mac-boot'.
If this doesn't work boot into Open Firmware again and run 'eject cd' followed by 'mac-boot'.
You could also try forcing OS X to accept that the drive isn't in use by following the instructions here, however they do assume that a disk is stuck in the drive.
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DVD-R Drive ejects blank discs.

I have an Intel iMac G5. My DVD-R drive ejects all blank discs. No error message comes up, just some mechanical noises prior to ejection. Having trouble finding the right drivers to fix this, if it is a driver issue.

yes, there are countless blank media types, and there is NO DVD burner out there that will feed them all.
DID you switch to a new DVD blank media?
Also cheap DVD blank media has about a 10% reject ratio......try further down the stack
hard lessons learned after burning many 10s of 1000s of DVDs.
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My DVD combo Drive is going on my eMac, and I'd like to know if I can buy a replacement through Apple or through a 3rd party. Also would like to know how difficult it is to replace by myself. My machine is an eMac 800 MHz PowerPC G4, 1gig Ram. The specs on the drive are:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104:
Firmware Revision: A227
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No
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Hi Steve,
No-one bothers with Combos these days as Superdrives (DVD burning) are quite cheap.
I replaced in my eMac a Combo, originally a Pioneer drive with a Pioneer Super DVD 109 8X DVD-R/RW drive from OWC. It works great.
The current model is a DVR - 115 D but is essentially the same and would suit your model.
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives/powermac/
Installing it was easy.
Remove the shell, and carefully disconnect the power wire.
Remove the screws that hold the optical drive, slide it out and install the new one.
No software drivers are needed.
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Replace DVD Combo Drive on eMac

My DVD combo Drive is going on my eMac, and I'd like to know if I can buy a replacement through Apple or through a 3rd party. Also would like to know how difficult it is to replace by myself. My machine is an eMac 800 MHz PowerPC G4, 1gig Ram. The specs on the drive are:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104:
Firmware Revision: A227
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No
Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Steve

Most of the readers of the "Older Hardware Products" section have some familiarity with products pre-1997. Your eMac is positively modern by comparison.
You would get more readers, and therefore be more likely to get better advice, on the eMac forums:
Category: eMac
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I've recently see on the UK Ebay site a Tangarine iBook, where the seller has upgraded it somewhat and put in a CD/DVD combo drive. (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8802810218&sspagename=ADME% 3AL%3ARTQ%3AUK%3A1&rd=1)
I contacted the guy to ask him what the make and model of the drive was and he told me it was a Toshiba SD-C2502 drive. He said that you need to use F12 to open it and hasn't mentioned if it has suffered from any cosmetic damage.
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OK, so lots of other people have been experiencing this as well....
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1082140&#1082140
I'm kind of at a loss here, I guess I'll give all the cleaning advice suggested in that thread a go but I still reckon some software is missing? There must be some code that reads CDs....a different set of code to that which reads DVDs?
I'll have to buy an external drive today, I'm a musician & my Mac currently has no music software on it or any way to install it!!!! My studio is currently useless...
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Hi there,
my emac got stuck after using a audio-CD with a little scratch. After restart I introduced normal CD-R, but they just got ejected by themselves after a few strange noises and about 5 seconds. I put in the MAC OS X start-up DVD, and it worked perfectly.
The question is: is there anything I could do, besides upgrading my eMAC after all to a Superdrive?
Doing some reliable(?) Internet research, it looks, that that can´t be too hard, and my warranty has expired anyway. So the second question goes:
Which brands and models are working fine? (Looks like Pioneer does, but only them?)
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Daniel.
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I had the same problem on my 14 month old (under-used!) 1.25 combo, would read dvd fine but not cd-rw, I tried a cleaning disc and even took out drive to blow out any possible dust! still no luck.
I then decided to go superdrive and put in a Pioneer 110D cd/dvd burner as this seemed the popular choice, I found installation easy, I left the jumper on back of cd burner on 'CS' as my original one was set to that. I then fired up emac and installed 'Patchburn 3' software patch available as a download from the internet to finish the installaton. So far it all seems ok!

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I did some brief research on the Event ID 41 error and found a few things. One Microsoft article (found here) advises to make sure that the memory is not having issues. This can be checked by pressing Enter at the LENOVO screen when starting the computer, and then running the diagnostic called the Quick memory test. A user on a Microsoft forum (found here) found that once all drivers for his system were updated, the error stopped for him. I would give these steps a shot and see if anything changes. The drivers for your system can be found here.
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My powerbook of 3+ years all of a sudden today decided to not accept any cds/dvds anymore
its like the drive is stuck in eject mode. Its a slot loading 1ghz 12" al powerbook.
Anyone know of a step to take to figure this one out. Ive had apple store look at it but since im beyond my warranty its going to be 300+$ for a repair/replace!!!
pbfixit shows me how to get at the drive, but im wondering if there is some way to "reset" the drive and maybe get it to work again.
thought are appreciated

Is there any other means of resetting a hardware
optical drive??
I'm not confident this will work but it's worth a try, it certainly won't damage your machine. Boot into Open Firmware ("Command + Option + O + F" on startup chime) and run 'reset-nvram' followed by 'reset-all'. Then boot into OS X by typing 'mac-boot'.
If this doesn't work boot into Open Firmware again and run 'eject cd' followed by 'mac-boot'.
You could also try forcing OS X to accept that the drive isn't in use by following the instructions here, however they do assume that a disk is stuck in the drive.
Matt

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Hi
Seems you have already noticed that the drive replacement is not so easy.
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I found some compatible drives numbers but unfortunately, I did not find the drive names.
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DVD Super Multi Drive (supporting Double-Layer)
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