Help! Superdrive ejects everything!

Hi
Every time I put a cd or dvd into my superdrive it clicks and whirrs for a moment then ejects it again.
Is this anything I'm likely to be able to mend /diagnose myself, or am I off for a replacement drive?
Thanks,
Jestyn

If you read the other threads about this "SuperDrive" you will see there are some things you can do before you call the drive dead. BTW - your symptoms are not like the rest of ours - so keep your fingers crossed.
You could
1) zap the perimeters
Re: Superdrive gave up the ghost -- where to start?
Posted: Oct 26, 2006 11:32 AM in response to: dçøyan
From: Sherry Johnson
Frst, boot to open firmware holding apple-option-o-f and then type in the following commands--
reset-nvram (hit return)
set-defaults (hit return)
reset-all (hit retur
2) Rewrite the Permissions through Disk Utility
Can't find the original post for this- but guarantee it was one of the suggestions given
3) Download PatchBurn - courtesy of Michael McMann1
http://www.patchburn.de/download.html
4) Change Your Media - courtesy of Sue DIllini
May I suggest that you use Verbatim DVD-R at 4x or slower to burn.
Read these:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86130
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151900
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302925
4) Try using it through a different program - like Toast
several different posts - hard to say who gets the credit...
5) My personal favorite - (also courtesy of Sherry Johnson) remove all electrical everything from the computer and open it up. Remove fan and see little silver square (on the bottom of the motherboard) it has a little white circle button - press and hold for a full second - it's called resetting the motherboard.
6) Let Apple know (courtesy of Sue Dillini)
Tell them about it here:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
7) and after you've tried all these "helpful" hints - Buy a new one.
Courtesy of Steve Boultbee
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives/powermac/
and installation instructions are here: (but he lets you know they forgot to tell you to remove the faceplate first.) http://www.apple.com/support/powermac/doityourself/storage.html

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