CD/Dvd drive not working - help please

Hello,
Whenever I put a disc into my cd/dvd drive it ejects immediately and when I look at the system profiler it does not show the drive as even existing. The problem originated when I did a software update 2 months ago and the computer crashed everytime I put a disc in.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
Denver

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
Often, when a software update doesn't completely install, odd things can happen. If the software update was for 10.5.5, go to http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/ and download the combo 10.5.5 release. Before installing it, bring up disk utility (in applications/utilities) and repair permissions, install it, then repair permissions again.

Similar Messages

CD/DVD drive not working --- HELP

i'm wondering if this is something i can fix myself or that i'll have to bring in....
for no apparent reason, ie no trauma or anything, my CD drive is not working. when i put in a CD (haven't used a DVD in it yet) the computer doesn't read it. it makes a odd noise and then nothing.....i push eject and the computer kinda freezes and i can only get the CD out if i Force Quit iTunes and restart my iBook. any thoughts, greatly appreciated.

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Are your System Preferences set to do what you are expecting when you put a CD into the drive tray?
From Mac Help:
You can determine how you want your computer to respond when you insert a music or picture CD in the optical drive. You can:
Open iTunes or iPhoto to play or view your CD
Open another application of your choice
Run a script to perform a sequence of actions
Ignore the disc if you don't want to do anything right away
Open System Preferences and click CDs & DVDs.
Choose an action from the two pop-up menus for music CDs and picture CDs.
Close the window to save your settings.
To play a music CD automatically when you insert it, you also need to set iTunes to begin playing when you insert a CD. In the General pane of iTunes Preferences, choose Begin Playing from the On CD Insert pop-up menu.
If your System Preferences are set correctly, you can try to do a little hard drive maintenance to see if that will help. This may or may not help (depending upon what the problem is), but it won't hurt to try. Try booting into Safe Mode. This will take awhile longer than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk.
If this works you will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up, try to restart normally, and go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility and repair permissions on the hard drive.
See if a little hard drive maintenance helps things out.
Also, how big is your hard drive and how much space remains available on it? Strange things start to happen when you have less than 5 GB of available hard drive space.

Dvd drive not worked properly

i have hp pavilion dv4 series.my dvd drive not worked properly.for that purpose only i went 7 times in your service centre but they won't take action till now .why u people do like this .i want explation and just change my dvd drive that's all.

tcrite,
Sounds like a bad drive...I would get a replacement. According to Accelerate Your Mac database, it should work without issue.
Just enter the model number of the drive and select your Powerbook G3 2000, and you will see four reports on this model.
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso

HP pavilion dv6 microphone not working . help please . . .

HP pavilion dv6 microphone not working . help please . . .

Hi,
DV6 is a series of hundreads of models, what is yours ? To help us answer question quicker, please read this:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/First-Time-Here-Learn-How-to/Welcome-Get-started-here/td-p/699035
You may wat to try this first:
1. Right click speaker icon (right hand corner)
2. Select Microphone devices
3. Right click Microphone
4. Enable it
5. Click Apply/Ok
Regards.
BH
**Click the KUDOS thumb up on the left to say 'Thanks'**
Make it easier for other people to find solutions by marking a Reply 'Accept as Solution' if it solves your problem.

On my iPhone 5 camera photographed not clear. blurry pictures, autofocus does not work. help please!

on my iPhone 5 camera photographed not clear. blurry pictures, autofocus does not work. help please!

Could you please describe how you are trying to delete a single text message and it will not work? What are you seeing in place of the trash can icon?

External DVD drive not working with Lombard G3 333

I have an external DVD drive that worked when I had 10.4, but had to reformat HD and now only have 10.3.9, and now the DVD drive does not work with DVDs, it will work with CDs and CDR media, but not with DVD media. My Lombard did not come with DVD originally and I am using a PC Card (Macintosh PowerBook DVD-Video PC Card For PowerBook G3 Series) and it worked before with 10.4, but not with 10.3, any ideas? Also have tried with 9.x, no go either. Any help would be appreciated.
Also, would it be difficult to add a DVD logic board to my Lombard?
Joey

xamdu,
I am reading and replying to this post after first replying to your other post, so a few of my previous comments are redundant.
Regarding the FireWire(?) USB 2.0(?) DVD drive: It is possible Tiger supported your DVD drive but Panther does not. I would give PatchBurn for Panther a try:
http://patchburn.de/download.html
If the above is unsuccessful, take a look at this workaround:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040330171655882
You can swap logic boards but it does require a lot of disassembly.
Since no version of OSX supports Apple DVD Player, I am assuming you have a third-party player like VLC installed to watch movies. If this is the case, the DVD Decoder PC card is not necessary. If booted to 9.x, you of course will need the decoder PC card but I did not know 9.x's Apple DVD Player supported external drives.

When i go in my settings on my ipod touch 3gen it says no wi-fi as in i cant connect to any wi-fi at all i tried to restore but did not work HELP PLEASE

when i go in my settings on my ipod touch 3gen it says no wi-fi as in i cant connect to any wi-fi at all i tried to restore but did not work HELP PLEASE

See:
iOS: Wi-Fi or Bluetooth settings grayed out or dim
If not successful, an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is usually in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

After update.. i can not start the ipad, when i press agree in the terms ...it will freeze and the screen not working///help please

after update.. i can not start the ipad, when i press agree in the terms ...it will freeze and the screen not working///help please

What to Do When Your iPad Won't Turn On
http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Troubleshooting/ss/What-To-Do-When-Your-Ipad-Wo-No t-Turn-On.htm
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3281
iPad Frozen? How to Force Quit an App, Reset or Restart Your iPad
http://ipadacademy.com/2010/11/ipad-frozen-how-to-force-quit-an-app-reset-or-res tart-your-ipad
iPad: Basic troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3274
iOS: Resolving update and restore alert messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275
iPad: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4097
 Cheers, Tom

HT201210 I can not restore my iPhone 4S itunes error says I have 29 and I put it in DFU mode and not working help please

Hello

I can not restore my iPhone 4S itunes error says I have 29 and I put it in DFU mode and not working help please

TS2755 When trying to open my mail, it opens then closes immediately, I've deleted the account and re-created it 3 times and also done a reset but still not working, help please

When trying to open my mail, it opens then closes immediately, I've deleted the account and re-created it 3 times and also done a reset but still not working, help please

Try closing all apps in Multitask Window
1. Double tap the home button to bring up the multi-tasking view
2. Swipe up on the screenshot of the app you want to exit.
3. The app will fly off the screen

DVD drive not working properly.....

here's the info on whats going on:
when i try to put in a CD/DVD it spits the disk out right away. after trying to put it in about five times or so, the drive takes it, makes its fancy noises to make me think that its reading the disk, but the computer doesnt recognize that it has one in the drive. sometimes it spits the disk out, but other times it will just keep it.
ive been reading posts from other users with similar issues and done everything that everyone has tried i.e. going to disk utilities and "verifying the disk" (it says everything is working normally), tried to "repair" the drive, and when i go the the info section about my disk drive it says that its read/writable, but not ejectable.
here is the info that it gives me, maybe this could be of some help to try and narrow down the possible problems:
Name : FUJITSU MHY2160BH Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : GUID Partition Table
Disk Identifier : disk0
Media Name : FUJITSU MHY2160BH Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Device Tree : /PCI0/SATA@1F,2/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:0
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : No
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : Internal
Total Capacity : 149.1 GB (160,041,885,696 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 0
the last thing that i havent done is do a full restart of the computer. that is my last resort. anyone have any ideas on what to do?
thank you for your time.

I have a question similar to this.....
Just recently (no updates/changes, etc) my CD drive stopped working. It won't let me enter a CD at all. It is as if there is something in there blocking it. I tried restarting the computer, but that didn't help. It acts like I have to force it in there, but I really don't want to do that. As far as I know there's nothing in there, as I rarely use the drive. Please advise if there is any sort of resets I can do for the drive (I'm still trying to get the hang of my MAC).
Thank you for any assistance!!!!

HP Pavilion 500-018 Desktop PC DVD Drive not working

I have a HP Pavilion 500-018 Desktop PC with windows 8.1. For some reason, the CD-ROM drive has stopped working. When I put a disk in to install new software, it does not recognize that there is a disk in the drive. I've tried updating the driver, etc. Even in the file explorer, the drive does not show up. About the only thing I can do it eject the disk.
Any help would be most appreciated.

Hello officeh2h -
It sounds like windows is not recognizing the CD/DVD drive. Click here to view a document that addresses this problem.
I hope this takes care of it for you.
Cheers,
dhtp
Please click "KUDOS Thumbs Up" if I have helped you and click "Accept as Solution" if your problem is solved.
DH
I work on behalf of HP.
Please click "KUDOS Thumbs Up" if I have helped you, and click "Accept as Solution" if your problem is solved. Thanks for the feedback!

Hp DVD Drive Locker! Help Please

hi guys:
will I tried to clean up my notebooks dvd drive. i made a mistake while closing it, idk where, and the issue is it doesn't close (lock) when i close it, help please, and thanks
here is a video i made for a better understanding
http://youtu.be/j0hMz_SWq8c

Ok, I didn't realise that you never found the DVDPlayback.framework folder, the way you answered my post, I just predumed that you had.
The Mavericks version may or may not be differenect to the Lion version you have. I don't know. However, there is more to the folder than just this one file. How they all work and what outside looks into this folder, again I don't know, but I would expect these to be contributing to your issues.
I don't know why you bothered to download a separate player, especially a blue-ray, but you may as well delete it as it is now help to you.
The initialization error, is the same one I would normally see when the DVDPlayback file was still set to internal. I suspect that you are getting the error, because of other issues with the framework.
No, I will not email my framework files to you, as again I have no idea if they would even be any use to you, plus, I just don't want to.
You have to have the correct DVDPlayback.framework on you computer. I stongly suggest that you go to the Mac App Store, to your Purchases tab and download the full installer of OS X Mavericks. This is a large 5GB file and will fully reinstall the operating system onto you computer. It SHOULD leave all your data intact, but backup first, to be sure. If this framework is missing, you may have others too.
Once you downloaded the OS X installer and installed, make the changes to the DVDPlayback files as before, make sure System Preferences > CDs & DVDs is set to 'When you insert a video DVD: Open DVD Player' is set, and you should be right to watch DVD movies.

Dv6636nr dvd drive not working

My daughter's laptop, dv6636nr, the dvd drive is not working. I went to the device manager and it says the device is working properly. But when I put a disc in , it just spins, makes some clicking noises then just stops. Also instead of the little light on it blinking 'green', it now blinks 'orange'. I tried pulling it out and uninstalling the driver, but that didn't work. If I need a new one, will it just plug and play and recognize the new one? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

So does anyone have any ideas? I just want to make sure it is the drive before I waste another $100 on this thing. It's the orange light that I'm wondering about. Is it telling me it's no good and get a new one or is it telling me to try something else? I contacted HP and they had me try downloading a bunch of updates and firmware, but that didn't help. Any help, please?

[SOLVED] dvd drive not working, log file filled with error.

hi,
i dont know if this is something to do with the latest kernel update or something else that may have occured.
but my dvd writer has stopped working. no light on the front, pressing the button does not open the tray.
it wtill works fine when i boot into windows (dual boot with XP) so it's not a hardware issue.
also my everything.log file is filling up with the following every two seconds!
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: status error: error=0x00 { }
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: drive not ready for command
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: status error: error=0x00 { }
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: drive not ready for command
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: status error: error=0x00 { }
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: drive not ready for command
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: status error: error=0x00 { }
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Mar 1 19:27:56 adax hda: drive not ready for command
can someone please help me before i run out of disk space for my logs!
thanks,
ad.
Last edited by adax (2008-03-01 23:25:37)

Hello,
I strongly suspect that you need to change 'ide' to 'pata' in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
#HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide scsi sata usb keymap filesystems"
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usb keymap filesystems"
Then recreate with:
mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img
Last edited by colnago (2008-03-01 21:21:37)

CD/Dvd drive not working - help please

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for