Optical drive clicking

I've got this problem with the optical drive clicking loudly (twice) after the computer is woken up from sleep. I don't exactly know when it started, but I don't think it was there when I first bought the G5.
What do you guys hear when you wake it up from sleep? Just the fans spinning up for a second, or do you also hear the optical drive click?

Apparently the clciking sound is supposed to be normal. Oh well...
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Occasionally if my MacBook Pro shakes a little, I'll hear a little clicking sound. It sounds like it's coming from either the optical drive or just below it, to the right of the trackpad. Should I be concerned? I only noticed this after my computer froze once, and since then it occasionally freezes, but returns to normal after 10-15 seconds.

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Internal Optical Drive not recognized after trying to Bootcamp

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Hello Michael Dixon2,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
In order to troubleshoot this issue where the optical drive does not accept discs, please follow the steps below.
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Be sure to check your disc to make sure it is flat. You can check this by putting the disc upside-down on a flat surface. If the disc is bowed up on any side or in the center, do not use the disc because it might get stuck in the drive. Do not use discs that have anything attached to them or dangling from them (such as "sweeper" or cleaning discs).
If the drive struggles when you put in a disc or stops part-way, carefully look at the disc for labels that may be interfering. If there aren't any raised labels then try putting the disc in a few more times.
Try another disc to see if the issue is being caused by a specific disc.
Make sure you insert the disc far enough for the drive mechanism to activate. You need to insert discs nearly all the way before the drive will activate and pull them in. If you don't completely insert a disc, the drive will reverse and push the disc back out.
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[Solved]Installing Jedi Knight Dark Forces II w/o optical drive

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Mount the iso for disc 1 in a directory that you have full control over, like ~/media/sr0/, which is where I mounted the iso when I installed the game.
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sudo mount <file.iso> -v --options loop,users <mountpoint>
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fuseiso <file.iso> <mountpoint>
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cd <path/to/mountpoint>
ex.
$ cd ~/media/sr0/
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wine Jedi.EXE
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<path/to/mountpoint>
is actually your optical drive.
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run wine config
winecfg
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Click on Add (shows up as 'Add...')
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Under type, select 'CD-ROM' and under Path, browse to where you plan on mounting the video game's isos and select that directory (~/media/sr0/ for me) and click Ok
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I was gonna also include a script that would mount and start the game for you and everything so that you could just alias it in your ~/.bashrc, and make your life so much easier... but my brain really hurts after typing all this up....
(after some time)
and the script that I went ahead and wrote anyway doesn't work very well, so you're one your own.
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'-b'|'--usefuse') fuseiso $2 $3 ; cd $3 ; wine $4 ;;
''|'-h'|'--help') printf "\n\e[1;31m usage:\e[0m sh mnp.sh [option] <file.iso> <mountpoint> <file.exe>\n\t-a|--nofuse \t use the standard mount command to mount the iso\n\t-b|--usefuse \t use fuseiso to mount the iso (requires that fuseiso be installed)\n\t-h|--help \t show this message\nexample:\n\tsh mnp.sh -a *1.iso ~/media/sr0/ Jedi.EXE\n" ;;
esac
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Please try Run now from the following link:
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I need help please. I have a 2009 MacBook Pro. The hard drive crashed a while back so I bought a new one. The original Snow Leopard disc that came with it was scratched so I bought a new one of it as well. After trying/failing to install Snow Leopard on the new hard drive about a dozen times I bought a new optical drive as well. I installed the new optical drive today, tried to install Snow Leopard again and STILL got the same installation error messages. Any help that anyone might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
Last error message:
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Did you partition and format the new drive first?
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