Does anyone know why imac shuts itself off when importing a cd into itunes?

very, very frustrating and disappointing. trying to import a music cd into itunes, left room, returned to find that the computer had turned itself off, disc still inside. started computer back up, cd was still on desktop, started itunes but the cd did not appear in itunes. searched and found all but one song had been imported, directed itunes to import that one track and itunes ballooned. had to force quit and force eject cd. this has happened before, but not for a while. i just don't understand why it just can't work. this is supposed to be such wonderous, and awe inspiring technology (what a supreme joke!), and the only thing that any of this technology is good at is collecting information and advertising. this is not just a mac problem, i've noticed that windows users are having the same issue. ridiculous.
imac, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, mac os x 10.6.8 (i know, it's old, but should still work!)

Hi again Susy!
As that website says, I would recommend following these steps to determine if there is an issue or not:
After listening to the example sounds, if you feel that your optical disc drive is making noises in excess of these examples during normal operation, please contact AppleCare for assistance.
Thank you for using the Apple Support Community. Due to the nature of your issue or question you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources - https://expresslane.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action.
Cheers,
Braden

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