New Combo Drive

I have a 15" G4 powerbook - I don't know if it's the "aluminum model" but it's configured this way: 800MHz, 512MB, 40G with OS 9.2. I think I need a new combo drive, can anyone tell me if the CW-8121-C will work with my powerbook?
Thanks.

I took it to mean that he was working with a blank CD. The drive acts as expected if he is inserting a blank CD and does not have burn capability.
One would think that it probably should read CD's, but it may not be so. The drive may be totally incompatible if you're trying to use a Combo drive without appropriate firmware. I'm not sure about that.
Susan, take a look at this thread, will you?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=653877&tstart=0
I believe it was you who said she had had trouble with a ribbon cable, yes? Maybe you can help this fella out?

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Can I remove the drive door on my new combo drive?

I bought a Lite-On dvd combo drive. The drive door (face place? Whatever it is called) is not flat like the dvd drive it replaced. Consequently, I can't get the drive door bezel back on my sawtooth. The drive works fine. It is strictly an aesthetic consideration.
I could pry at it until it snaps off, but before I take the cave man approach, I was wondering if a better way was known. Suggestions?
Powermac G4 500 AGP Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.2 ghz OWC G4 upgrade; 500 mb RAM; 100 gig HD

No, you can't. The only way to get a larger capacity would be to sell your iPhone and purchase a new one.
Regards.

MSI X52P combo drive

I wanted a new combo drive for the MEGA 180 and though id play safe and get one made by MSI to be sure its compatible -> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/optical_devices/dvs/pro_dvs_detail.php?UID=563
With this drive you get a few different coloured front panels or as MSI call them "active panels" one silver, one black and one white. Great i thought i'll put the black one on since most of the MEGA 180 is black.... so 20 min later everything installed and put back together. Then i click eject and "CRUNCH" the disk tray end panel doesnt fit through the front opening in the MEGA 180....which is dissapointing since its an MSI drive!!!!......and means another 20 min taking the thing to bits and then having to cut a few mm off the bottom of the black panel and putting it together again.
Once installed the drive works fine...but to work at the highest speed (x52 rather than x48) you need to press a button on the front of the drive.....which isnt easy on a MEGA PC.
Im sure a lot of people want a combo drive for their MEGA PC's and MSI really could have done a bit more testing here to ensure that all there products are compatible.
Standard MEGA 180
AthlonXP 2800+ Barton
BIOS out of the box
Geil 1 x 512MB DDR PC3200 400MHz
MSI X52P combo drive
Master - Maxtor 7200rpm 80GB (win XP without SP1)
Given up on media centre and using other software instead

yep ..doesn't always work the way you think..
would have been more exciting if the drive was too long and hit a capacitor on the mobo or something like that ....that happend to me once

Combo drive won't recognize CDs or DVDs

My original iMac won't show Cds or DVDs on the desktop. When I insert one, it says it needs to be formatted.
Probably need, a new Cd reader, right?
Can I install this myself? Cost?

Sorry for my late reply. I kept forgetting! Thank you for your responses (and for your helpful links, mrtotes). The more I read about internal DVD writers vs. external DVD writers, the more my head spun. Some user reviews expressed the opinion that the small form factor DVD burners (internal, slot loading) were the devil's peripherals and that they had a much easier time of it with external tray loading ones. Others wondered about buffer underrun (or is it overrun?) with externals.
While I was mulling this over, my service provider had already ordered and received the new combo drive for my iMac; so it looks like I'll be going with an external DVD burner (just as he recommended).
Here are a few links I found helpful:
Xlr8 Your Mac: searchable database of DVD drives with user reviews (both internal and external):
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso
Mac OS X Hints Forum (where I obtained the above link; also has info about brand of internal CD/DVD drives Apple uses)
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=79620&highlight=superdrive
Apple Discussion from June 2006 about internal and external DVD writers.
One person wrote, "Internal drives seem more reliable and are also far cheaper." But several responded with their experiences of external drives that work "flawlessly" (according to one poster, describing his Sony DRX-720UL).
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2608144&
Article from Low End Mac (from Oct. 2007) titled "External $100 Sony DVD Burner Likes Macs"
http://www.lowendmac.com/ed/bgray/bg07/1010.html

Ibook g3 combo drive not working

I have a 500 mhz Ibook G3 with a non working combo drive. I went and replaced it with a new combo drive. The new combo drive didn't work either, so I dug deeper. When I checked out the "about this Mac" drop down , I saw that the combo drive doesn't appear at all. I also cannot eject/open the CD drawer. If I manually open the drive I can't get a disc to play or even spin. So I an assuming that it is a power to the drive issue. Any ideas? Do I need a new ribbon cable or is it a software thing? I'm running 10.4.11.
Thanks
Tom

You may have gotten another drive that was faulty.
I don't think it's the cable because the iBook G3 uses a single cable for the hard drive and the optical drive, using a Master/Slave configuration. So if your hard drive is working, the optical drive should work, too, unless it's not connected properly.
Did you use iFixit's guide to install it?
It sounds like hardware, not software.

New mac mini won't accept dvd's/cd's in the combo drive

Hello friends:
i have a new mac mini that I bought about 2 months ago (Intel, 2.0 ghz). Everything was working fine until I went to put in a DVD today. The combo drive won't accept a disc. It's not that it won't read the disc, it physically won't suck it into the drive. Instead it just sits there. If I try and push it in, nothing happens... it just bounces back out at me as if pushed by a spring. And, no, there isn't already a disc in the drive.
Can anyone suggest how to get my combo drive to work again?

Hi jrm27,
I have an older Mac Mini 1.66 GHz, but I haven't seen this problem.
I take it that the disc does go in a little way. I would think that that rules out that the drive thinks there's a CD already in the drive. I know that when I have a CD or DVD in the drive, the little doors (they're really there) are closed and won't let me insert a 2nd CD.
I presume that you have restarted your system since this started to occur?
When the system is rebooting, hold down the mouse button. This is supposed to force eject a CD. It might also trick your system into thinking there's no CD there, or resetting something.
Try different types of CDs or DVDs, just to make sure that there's not something screwy with the media that you are using. Try an old-fashioned music CD or something.
Are there any sounds the drive makes?
David

New DVD CD combo drive wont work.

Ok, I just installed a 8221A combo drive (manuf. 10-2006) into my ibook and tried it in my mini also, and in both computers it powers and spins, but wont read or eject (just spins, no respose to anything). I had a 8123C (01-2005) and it worked fine in both computers. do I have to update drivers or will this drive not work at all in my setups?
I am replacing the cdrom in the ibook, so I plan on putting the new drive in the mini and the old one in the ibook, as it is harder to pull apart than the mini.
BTW, firmware in the ibook is 4.2of4 and the mini shouldn't need any update as it's new in 07/05.

sold it

New dvd cd combo drive?

I am looking to put a dvd/cd combo drive into my G3, can anyone tell me of a suitable drive that would fit?
The ibook is a G3 500 mhz 12 Inch model
thanks

The Apple part number is 661-2532.
http://www.appleparts.com/view_item.htm?name=ComboDrive+for+the+iBook+G3+12%22%5B661-2532%5D&itemID=432
http://www.welovemacs.com/ibookcombo.html
http://www.wegenermedia.com/12532.htm
It's a complicated procedure to do yourself:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iBook-G3-12-Inch-Optical-Drive/133 /1

Combo Drive Problems

I just installed the IDE CDRW/DVD combo drive and the PowerDVD software that came with it. Unfortunately I cannot seem to get my DVDs to play correctly. After about 10 minutes the playback goes buggy on me. It sort of crashes. By that I mean the DVD will go start over at the beginning (the studio logo part). I played the disc on two other players and it works fine. I also tried using another disc, and I experienced the same problem. The thing kind of resets. Further attempts have resulted in crashes and lock ups. I attempted playing the disc with PowerDVD and Windows Media Player. I made sure the drive was set to DMA and I did flash the drive BIOS. The hardware manager for the OS says the device is functioning properly. Anybody have any suggestions? Is this a hardware or a software issue?

Okay, I reinstalled the OS, installed WinDVD 4 and tested the discs. So I concluded that the problem was solved by reinstalling the OS. I assumed it would be safe to install PowerDVD 5. I did that and tested the disc and look what happens. Same old problem. I uninstalled it but still have the same problem! All that hassle of backing up my old data, reinstalling the OS...and the suffering. Oh the suffering.
At this point I think I'll just roll over and play dead. Fine...I can't watch Underworld on my deskbox past chapter 3...strangely, Matrix used to skip backward too, but that problem seems to have gone away.
I saw Wonkanoby's post about the new Nforce drivers...I picked those up...no help. I've pretty much done everything I can think about. At one point I've even taken the drive back and exchanged it for a new one. All updated drivers...DirectX 9...WinUpdated all current...really, nothing I can think of short of getting a new drive. But...it works fine for some discs?!
I think I'm going insane...man...look at this thread...I must be insane...I've spent a great majority of it talking to myself...

I have a G3 700 MHZ dual usb combo drive TRYING to install 10.4 TROUBLES!

hello
this is my first apple mac and i bought a ibook g3 powerbook which is:
700mhz processor 512k level 2
128mb SDRAM + 256mb stick
20GB ultra ATA hard drive
combo drive
400mpbs firewire port
video VGA
originally i tried to do a COMPLETE new install of 10.4 which the CD install completely wipped the laptop for before new install. the 10.4 disks installed and showed as installed on the hard drive as it took up about 3GB of space... i then went to restart computer like it requests but i got an UNHAPPY face and a QUESTION mark! i tried booting up from OS X cd selecting the hard drive but kept getting the same results...
can anyone help or say why it wont load???
i then reinstalled the original 10.1 disks i got with the laptop and i then tried to...
...update it to 10.2.4 from 10.1 and it worked absolutely great :O)
(i thought i'd try going though all the upgrades to get to 10.4...
i then got a 10.3.4 disk this is when problems happened again, i loaded disk first time i did an upgrade install and i did custom install (i didnt want printer drivers and languauges on so disabled them) about 10 mins later came up with error while installing so i quit install, restarted G3 and reset cd off again to upgrade....
the second time i forgot to deselect printer drivers and while installing them 'narna' froze. so i had to put power plug out to get it to restart up.
i switched back on and got a grey language screen telling me to press power button to restart. thats all i got...
i've tried option button with disk so i can select the drive from which to start it up and my drive is there with 10.3 on it with a red cross on the box. if i selected that drive to boot G3 up from it restarts computer and then while it loads i got the grey apple screen and then it freezes again but this time i got lots of grey/white lines across the screen...
so i THEN AGAIN wiped it and i am now back to 10.2 version and wanting to try upgrading to 10.3 if anyone knows reason it wouldnt work
OR
if someone can help me get 10.4 on it. i know the RAM may seem low but it is enough to install as the cds/books say it is...

hi ronda,
i've 1GB RAM in the mini. but that's not the problem.
even on my G5 1,6GHz powermac with 3GB RAM you can't play any of those heavy flashgames like farmville, frontierville or treasure isle. takes forever until they've been loaded by the browser and when you try to move your avatar and do some game action it will at best move in slow motion or you will get the spinning beachball until finally browser or flash plugin crashes.
so that's for a G4 mini and a G5 powermac. the OP asked if farmville could be run on a G3 700MHz ibook. it's a no go. sorry.

I had a repair done on my MacBook Pro and had to have a new hard drive installed. The Apple Auth Repair Shop then updated the OS from 10.6.8 to 10.7.5. Now my iPhoto v 9.2.3 will not open and it sounds like it will not work with this OS. Can you plea

I had a repair done on my MacBook Pro and had to have a new hard drive installed. The Apple Auth Repair Shop then updated the OS from 10.6.8 to 10.7.5. Now my iPhoto v 9.2.3 will not open and it sounds like it will not work with this OS. Can you please advise?

You may need many other updates to retain compatibility with Lion. I suggest you reinstall Snow Leopard. Unfortunately, you will need to erase the drive first. Be sure to backup your data if you haven't done so already.
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. After you finish Setup Assistant will complete the installation after which
         you will be running a fresh install of OS X. You can now begin the update process
         by opening Software Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your
         installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

Help with new hard drive and data recovery

I have a macbook pro 13" from early 2011...last week the hard drive crashed and after a few hours at the genius bar had to got tekserv to recover my data and get a new hard drive and update to 8GB of Ram. When I got my macbook back I was given an external hard drive that had everything from my old hard drive saved by the users on the old hard drive. I was hoping I could just transfer the user over to the new hard drive but since I had to restart the computer as a new computer I am not able to just reassign my old profile as the new one on this laptop. Maybe I've done something wrong but at this point I transferred all my documents over, moved my music and pictures over but I have a few things I can't figure out that I'm hoping someone can help with.
1. Do emails that were in my mail program from both gmail and my verizon.net program get saved somewhere or do I have to just assume those were lost?
2. my iTunes library is now there but none of my playlists are there. Should those have been saved somewhere in my iTunes folder that I should see them? I'm concerned about syncing my iPhone or iPads to iTunes without those there.
thanks for the help.

Here's the spec page on your PB. http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/stats/powerbook_g4_1.25_15.ht ml It came with OS 10.2.7 installed. The max OS is Leopard 10.5.x
Tiger install DVDs are in short supply. Tiger is no longer available at the Apple Store but may be available for $129 by calling Apple Phone Sales @ 1-800-MY-APPLE (1-800-692-7753). For other sources, do a Google search for MA453Z/A (10.4.6), MA190Z/A (10.4.3) and M9639Z/A (10.4). Also look on eBay. Be sure & buy a retail version (black with silver X) and not a model specific version (gray) (See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1976068 Can I use another Mac's system restore disc on my Mac?.
Also check these web stores: http://www.lacomputercompany.com/cgi-bin/rpcart/index.cgi?command=dispitem&type= sku&sku=19521 http://www.allmac.com/shop/index.php?cPath=5_10003
After you install the base 10.4.x, update to the final Tiger version 10.4.11. Here's the link for the 10.4.11 combo update http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24901?viewlocale=en_US
Look at this link Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Installing Software Support Page
http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/install/
You can also download the Tiger Installation and Setup Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Tiger_Install_Setup_Guide.pdf
 Cheers, Tom

New hard drive won't install in my macbook pro 13"

Hi everyone
I have recently been having problems with my mac book where I was constantly seeing the spinning beachball. I had wiped the hard drive and was still having this problem so took my mac book to a "genius" at my local mac store who told me that the hard drive was faulty. I was out of warranty so he advised me how to change the hard drive and recommended me to install a crucial 240gb M500 SATA 6Gbps 2.5 SSD. I have now fit this into my mac book and have done internet recovery to allow me to get to Disk Utility. My computer recognises the new Hard drive but when I got to erase the disk to enable me to install the operating system it just hangs attempting to unmount the hard drive. I left it over night and nothing happened. IS there something I have done wrong or is there another way of me installing the operating system onto the new hard drive?
Many thanks in advance

Hi Clinton:
off topic: remembering your beautiful 980GB M500, i want to point to two things that I came repeatedly by:
1. the M500 has more "overprovisioning" than most other Crucial ssds ( I thought that you might want to hear that.
2. Lately I hear more and more comments by respectable manufacturers that Trim in Mac OSX should be avoided: the "enabling" softwares are a bit crippled software and there are many timing faults at the file level communications, which are counterproductive.
So I followed the recent comments of a OWC staff member:
"One way to live without TRIM on OSX is just reduce the volume on the drive and leave the unallocated space...unallocated. If you have a 240GB drive I suggest removing 40GB.
The drive will map this into the over provisioning and move the space in and out of use on the volume very quickly...almost faster than TRIM does
Also remember the drives do have garbage collection and will look after themselves if given the chance too".
So I restored the complete original IOAHCIFamily.kext ( by running a Combo Update) on all my SSDs, and with DiskUtility I dragged the bottom of the startup partition up for about 40GB and left it unallocated (no format).
I remember that you did not install Trim (?), but to be sure I send this to you.
Have fun my friend,
Lex

New Hard-drive - won't reboot after restored with TM

Hey,
I got a new hard drive yesterday and used TM to restore my last back up. When I went to restart the computer it now doesn't go past the Apple and spinning gear.
I've tried to eject the CD and external hard-drive. I've restarted holding shift, then function, then cmd + alt + R + P. None of these have worked!
Help!
Thanks
Kash

KashUK wrote:
Hey,
It let me choose the HD but then it's stuck on the loading page again!
I'm not really sure what topic to look under in the trouble-shooting page. I'm not very good with computers.
Thank-you for the advice.
K
KashUK wrote:
Hey,
It let me choose the HD but then it's stuck on the loading page again!
I'm not really sure what topic to look under in the trouble-shooting page. I'm not very good with computers.
First, I guess I should ask just how you did the restore. Did you start up from your Install disc and use the +Restore System From Backup+ option in the Utilities menu, per #14 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum)? If not, do that.
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Otherwise, you want #E8 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html]. Here's the direct link: http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/E8.html Here's the gist of it:
Why did you get a new drive? If the old one failed, it's possible it corrupted your system as it was beginning to fail, and those changes got backed-up, so were brought back when you restored.
In that case, you might want to do the restore over, but select an earlier backup, from before the troubles started. Just be sure to use your +Snow Leopard+ install disc.
If you used a Leopard Install disc to restore a +Snow Leopard+ backup, that won't work. You may want to just do it over with the +Snow Leopard+ disc, or your best bet may be to just install OSX from your Snow Leopard Install disc, then download and install the 10.6.6 "combo" update from the link there.

What is the best order to upgrade to Lion after putting in a brand new hard drive in my MacBook Pro? Restore first? or install Lion First?

I have a 2008 macbook pro with brand new 500GB hard drive and 6GB new RAM. My old hard drive is backed up on external drive, via time machine. When the shop put in the new hard drive (there was nothing wrong with old one, it was just stuffed to the brim), they loaded snow leopard from a disk, but I haven't put anything from the old drive back on yet....I haven't even configured my mail and am just reading mail from ipad and phone these days.
Question: Should I install Lion before I restore all the old backed-up stuff, or is it important to have anything, ( like maybe preferences) already on the computer when I download Lion. I want to be selective when restoring from time machine, because my old hard drive had a lot of ancient software and junk on it that had migrated from every computer we've ever owned, and that is many, many.
So, I'm just stuck on the best way to proceed. Also, should I install the latest update for 10.6.8 before I download Lion? I see today that some new updates have become available; java, security, safari, and apple software installer.
Thanks
G.T.

Gaye Thomas wrote:
But I just read your next post, and it sounds like you think I should do the back-up first, or am I missing something. I think you are now recommending that:
1. First I should install Snow Leopard,
2. do the combo update of 10.6.8
3. THEN USE BACKUP to restore what I want to carry over to new drive.
4. Then upgrade to Lion.
I would restore SL and do the Combo 10.6.8 update. Then use your backup to load back in what you want. Then do the upgrade to Lion.
So what made you change your mind?
And, just to say again, the hard drive is completely new. The shop installed 10.6.8 from the installation CD, and I haven't even configured email. I'm only using safari. I just now downloaded 4 updates that software updater recommended. It now tells me it is up to date. Is there any reason to do a 10.6.8 combo updater?
Are you recommending to do the back up BEFORE I install Lion, so that there are some preferences and information about old passwords and certain information that Lion will want to know about? Will it make my life easier to back up BEFORE I install Lion?
What changed my mind was your second post. You don't want to carry over everything to the new drive and the install of Lion. You only want selective things and of course your personal files.
For that I "feel" it best to install SL, Update SL to the most current version, Then selectively restore the parts you want and then install Lion on top of that newest install of SL with the selectively restored parts on the new Hard drive.
That should give you as clean an upgrade as you can get.
Of course you could go a completely different route. Make the Lion install USB, Save all your program Install files you want to be installed in Lion along with your personal files. Then Wipe the drive and install Lion clean. Then RE-Install your programs and copy over your personal files.
That is what I would do as I do not like upgrading to a new OS over the top of an older one. I have never found that to be as clean and it always seems to carry over stuff from the older OS to the new one. But that is me.

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