Drive ejects discs

So I'm a new Mac user and I've had my new Macbook for a day now and I go to put a DVD in the drive and it takes it in, makes a noise for a about a second then ejects the disc. Doesn't matter what kind of disc....Any suggestions?

Hello billyrhelms:
Welcome to HP's forum. Well I see you found HP's cheep CD/DVD drive. This is normal behavior how wonderfull. CDs and DVDs have codes unfortunately HP Touchsmart will not open the discs. You have to use HP's disks or Mexwell brand disks. Now for movies you have to pay for this updatehttp://www.cyberlink.com/prog/update/v2/update.jsp?fileTypeId=1&PRODUCTNAME=TouchSmart&PRODUCTVERSIO...__ Not cheap very expesive $84.00 . If yoi are having problems with software disc. Insert disc then close that useless tiny window witch I find it very annoying. Left click on (Edrive select properties and choose witch Windows to open the disc in. The computer will eject non compatible disks and softawre disks
This is one reason why people are switching to Apple computers or to other brand computers. Please read forum. This is not the first time this subject was posted. Please click on Kudos if I have answered your question. Thank you frrw.

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I'm using a Mac mini late 2006 model (1.83GHz Intel Core Duo, 1GB RAM, Snow Leopard 10.6.1) and a few days ago the machine started ejecting optical discs without reading/mounting them. Once a disc is inserted, the machine whirs a but and then ejects the disc.
The problem affects all discs - blank CD, DVD, published CD and DVD.
Can anyone offer any help as to why? I've not had any problems with the optical drive before and have used it reasonably regularly because prior to upgrading to Snow Leopard and plugging in an external hard drive to use Time Machine, I was using Back Up - which obviously requires me to use the optical drive.
I must say I'm a bit confused as to why. The machine has not been dropped or even moved since the drive has gone from functioning to not working. I keep my software up to date. I have heard that Snow Leopard seems to be causing the odd strange issue but not come across this one. The drive has functioned properly since the SL install a month or so ago.
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Hi there
Apologies for the delay in coming back here, been kind of busy.
I tried the canned air solution and unfortunately, it didn't work. However, having spoken to a number of people about this since my posting and the help posted to this forum, using the canned air generally comes highly recommended because it usually does solve such problems.
So, I've also looked for a cleaning disc and am still searching (to be fair, I've not yet looked very hard) but the problem seems to be that most stores sell cleaning discs designed for drives with a CD tray, rather than the slot loading mini approach (which also has fabric to held clean the disc on its way in, rather negating the benefit of using any fluid or gel on the disc).
I'm going to keep looking and will post back here to let you know if I have any luck or not. Do try the canned air solution - it may work, also please post to let us know if you solve it or not. I fear that there's a proper problem with the drive...
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