Combo drive making funny sounds

When I place a DVD into the drive and it starts to spin, a terrible noise comes from the drive. Sounds like the whole iBook G4 is about to go up in flames
I have read some of the posts about the combo drives and not being able to read discs, well as of now mine reads discs but makes noise so any help on this matter would be great
thanks
guelah75

can ANYONE give me some help on this one?
thanks
guelah75

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