Pushing optical drive tray to close / eject key

silly question -- is it a bad habit to push the optical drive tray inward to close it rather than hitting the eject key on the keyboard? for some reason half the time i press the eject key on my keyboard it does nothing .. it's a hassle so i always push the tray in to close it. is it meant to respond to this?

I've had a similar problem but only when Parallels is running. While Parallels is running I can open the CD tray with the keyboard button but it won't close. I have to close it by hand in those situations. I've resorted to pausing Parallels just to close the CD tray lately!

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Is it possible to leave the optical drive tray open?

Hello -
I'd like to know if there's any way to have the optical drive tray stay open when shutting down a Mac Pro (PowerPC version, running Leopard)? It's for security reasons in my office to make sure no media is left in after the computer has been shut down.
Thank you.

AppleTV2 has no 'volume control' over optical - it either sends a Dolby Digital 5.1 stream for movies encoded with this or a stereo linear PCM signal. AppleTV1 used to send stereo audio as 44.1 kHz 16 bit (CD quality) whatever it was originally (MP3/AAC/AIFF/WAV), AppleTV2 mucks around and sends a DAT quality signal of 48 kHz 16 bit over optical which yoru Tv may not be able to decode.
Like Rudegar I'd consider the HD4200m as perhaps the model number - some older TVs had the same connections on teh back for a given range, just on lower specced models the connections were not actually connected/enabled.
Another consideration would be whether or not the optical port on the TV is optical out (would not work) rather than optical in.
The lack of analogue connections on AppleTV2 is a nuisance. Send some feedback:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
Won't help current hardware and doubtful any new design but you never know.
AC

Optical drive tray will not close

I bought my Hp laptop yesterday and after charging it fully, i decided it was time to investigate. In doing so, I ejected the optical drive - one of the main reasons i bought it and attempted to close it again. But it won't. I have tried several times, not wanting to over do it and break it, but to no avail. Note that I have not damaged it in any way, it just doesn't want to stay shut! How do i get it to close...and stay closed?! Thanks.

, Hello and thanks for posting on the HP support forums. From what you are describing you will have two choices. First and easiest is to take it back to the store for exchange. The sensor for the cd tray is not working right and needs to be pulled and repaired. This will require it being sent in for repair to HP. Contact HP Support. Most stores have a 14 day return policy so with your system being so new it would be much faster. The turn around on a repair could take 10 days. Thanks again for posting and have a great day.

I have tried many times to install a SSD drive by using optical drive tray, my MBP is early 2011, intel serise 6, checked on webpage, and someone say SSD could be installed on HDD drive, I guess it could be solved by driver, anyone good idea?

Hi, MBP friends, any ideas for this problem? I tried hard and checked the hardware we have, and it hardly to say the problem from hardware, instead I am thinking it could be solved by driver update, or someone who is good on computer language that could help with the problem.
My computer is early 2011, with intel serise 6 and sata 3 acceptable. I dont know why the opitical drive can not support ssd drive instead.
need help, I really dont want to put my SSD driver to HDD driver, and move HDD driver to optical driver.

well, i have got information from website, and it says it will be harmful to hdd driver set in optical area coz there is no vibration protection function.
i have checked the system, and it says the sata speed is the same 6G and chip intel series 6. it should be the same speed, right?
I am thinking that the chip is the same and mortherboard is the same, the cable is similar as well, why it doesnt work? driver issue? OSX issue? or software issue? firmware?
or simply to say, if i am trying to setup two ssd driver into MBP, it has to be one in opitcal driver area. how could work?
thanks... still in puzzle.
right now, i have reinstall the osx into ssd by usb external, and install it back with opitcal tray, however, when i turn on the computer, the system can not be logged in from SSD, and computer can not read SSD driver, and it says it must be formatted or push out.

Optical Drive tray wont stay closed

My PowerMacG5's optical drive door is stuck open. It will close using any of the normal procedures, but then immediately opens again whether there is a disk in it or not. No matter what I try, the tray always immediately re-opens and stays open. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Take a close look at the drive when you try to close it and see if the disc tray is hitting something.
This is normal behavior for a drive whose tray is blocked by something, so there may be something in the way.

Optical drive not working only ejecting DVDs

Hi guys, I have a Macbook Unibody model no MacBook5,1. The thing is a month back the optical drive stopped working. I insert a DVD, its tries to read it for about 15 seconds and ejects it. Now the funny thing is last night i tried playing Dexter on it (great show) and it worked!!! but today i tried playing the same DVD and it does the 15sec eject thing. Now i'm in China, apple care expired about a month ago and i'm looking for a way to fix this with my hands. Any help would be great! Thanks

Buy an external drive.

Optical Drive Tray

Hi everyone, I'm hoping you could help...
My G5 sits on the floor to my left, slightly behind me, and my optical drive was open, with the tray out. I didn't notice, and as I rolled my chair back, I hit the tray and popped out the right side, so now it won't properly slide back in as it should. Left side is still properly attached, though may also be screwed up from my messing around with it. Is there an easy way to rehinge the tray so it goes back in? I don't want to bust it, and I don't want to have to take it apart either.
THANK YOU!
-C

Try to remove your optical drive from your G5, maybe you'll get it fixed, but I guess that you have to replace it: the tray mechanism may be broken.

Optical drive has difficult time ejecting

My DVD drive has a hard time ejecting certain dvd's. Not all but only certain ones, and they do not have a paper label. Is this a sign my drive may be heading for trouble? Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks for any help.
Marco

I just saw Lyssa's post just above. I know what to do.
Thank you.
Marco

Apple Keyboard Eject Key driver missing?

Hello all,
Having just installed Windows Vista on my MacPro via the BootCamp assistant supplied with Leopard, I just can't open the cd tray using the eject key; I understand it's all about installing the proper driver that could be extracted from the Leopard DVD - is this correct? If so, how to intall it within Vista? I can't burn the driver on a CD and it(eject key not working) and I can't write on the Windows partition from within OS X as it is a NTFS volume...I'm getting quite desperate; truth be told, Vista is useless to me if I can't use CDs & DVDs for Windows-specific software and games...thanks for any kind of help

I have the same problem with my MacBook Pro. I wasn't able to find a way to use the eject key. I can't access my laptop w/Windows to see exactly how I ejected a CD but I know I did it. Anyways, if I can remember correctly, you can go to "My Computer" and either: right click on the CD/DVD and there is an option to eject or click on the CD/DVD and there's an option on the left to eject the CD/DVD. This is just my two cents, I was too lazy to search for an answer from Apple. Hope I can at least give you a temporary solution.

Optical drive ejects disks when I put them in

I tried inserting a disk into the optical drive and it would eject it right after.

Since my machine was only 2 days old the genius bar let me exchange my mac for a new one after seeing the problem in action, he even tried the DVD in 3 other macs at the counter, 2 could read it and one could not. the problem was thought to be with a dual-layer DVD but he grabbed some other DVDs and it was able to read it, so whatever the difference between the 64-bit and the 32-bit DVDs of windows 7 is, that is what the problem is isolated to in my case. I got my new machine home and it still cannot read the disk. Same problem as before, it reads the disk and promptly ejects it, I think the firmware needs to be upgraded because it does this in windows, during a boot, or within snow leopard. Please let me know what else I can try before I take this machine back.

"Optical Drive Unknown"

I have a MacPro 5,1 with two optical drives.
When I hit Eject, nothing happens.
When I go to System Information, both my DVD Drives show up as "Unknown"
I go to "Disc Burning" and it says "No disc burning device was found. If the device is external, make sure it’s connected and turned on." They are both internal and as far as I know, they came with my MacPro.
The most curious thing is, when I hold down Eject when rebooting, the disk drive indeed open!! And then they close two seconds after.
I've ran disk utility in the recovery partition and I have reinstalled Lion.
I have set up a new user and everything is the same for it as well, unkown drives and I'm unable to open the trays (with the eject key on my apple wired keyboard).
I've opened iDVD and get this error:
The issue occured when I installed one of my other HDD SATA drives into the MacPro, so I'm thinking this might be something to do with it.
But then why would holding down the Eject key while rebooting open the drives? wouldn't that mean that it should work universally?
I'm thinking I'm just missing a driver....
ANY help appreciated!!!
I think I included everything I could think about.
One of the things that could be the situation is that I installed boot camp windows.
I already gave it to apple to fix this and this is how it came back.

a PRAM reset did the trick. That should have been the first thing I did.
I'm going to give myself the answer so this thread is "closed"

Optical Drive doesn't read DVD's

Hi, I own an HP Pavillion dv7 1279wm entertainment laptop. It came installed with Vista, but I installed a free upgrade to Windows 7 that I got from HP. I had a problem where the drive would not read anything; the disc would spin, but eventually the tray would automatically open and tell me to insert a disc. After using Microsoft FixIt, I was able to read CDs, but encountered the same problem when trying to load a DVD. Previous to using Microsoft FixIt, I did use device manager to uninstall the drive and then reboot so Windows 7 would automatically update the driver. I'm thinking that means that it's not a software problem, but if you can think of anything else I can do (short of swapping out drives because I don't have access to another drive) to rule out it being a software problem please let me know. I realize that combo drives typically use different lasers to read CDs and DVDs, so my guess is that the laser that reads DVDs has failed. If that is the case, where can I find the correct replacement part and how do I install it?
Thanks,
Kevin

Hi Kevin,
If you eject the optical drive tray, you should see just one laser situated towards the centre of the tray - different voltages are applied to this depending on whether it's reading a CD or DVD.
First of all, use a soft, non abrasive material such as cotton or a cotton bud and gently clean the lens.
Check if this has made any difference.
If it still doesn't read DVDs, try following the procedure under the sub-heading 'Let me fix it myself' on the link below to remove the Upper and Lower filters, restart the notebook and see if this helps the issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982116
If it still doesn't read DVDs, the following procedure will test if your notebook can start from a bootable disc in the optical drive - the advantage of trying this is that it will rule out any possible Windows driver error as the CD/DVD drive is under the control of the Bios when starting the notebook. So if you find that the notebook will not boot from the DVD, then it's almost certainly a Hardware fault in the optical drive itself and it will need to be replaced.
Using another PC to create a Windows 7 Rescue DVD. Download the relevant ISO from the link below.
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64bit
You need use an application such as ImgBurn to correctly burn the ISO to a DVD - a guide on using ImgBurn to write an ISO to a disc is Here. Once created, insert the DVD and then restart the notebook and see if it boots from this disc - if it does, let the first screen come up ( this will show repair options etc ) then just remove the DVD and restart the notebook. If the notebook will not boot from the DVD, it may just load straight into Windows.
Regards,
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Dropped macbook making noises from optical drive, won't accept CD's/DVD

Hi,
I am new to the forum, and unfortunately I am posting because I have a problem. I dropped my MacBook (which I've had since August 2006) from a desk, about 2-3 feet onto tile floor. Luckily, everything turned on and is working just fine, except everytime I turn my computer on and everytime it wakes up from sleep, the optical drive makes lots of noise. It sounds like it is trying to eject a nonexistent disk, except it makes that typical noise 3-4 times in a row before stopping. Also, it will not allow me to insert disks (I can get them almost all the way in, but it won't go completely in). I checked in my system profiler and it shows the details of my optical drive, and it is a Matshita DVD-R UJ-857. I called Apple and told them what was happening, and they told me to bring it to a local authorized dealer. However, I am a college student and it's really hard for me to find time to give up my computer for an undetermined amount of time while they wait to diagnose it. Also, I have a feeling it is going to be really expensive, considering they want at least $100 just to look at it, before the cost of labor and parts to actually repair it. Has this happened to anyone else? Any advice on alternatives or experience with this type of issue would be very much appreciated!

My computer just started having the same problem, only I haven't dropped it. I did, however, inadvertantly knock a hot chocolate over, and a little got into the optical drive. I turned the computer off immediately, cleaned it, and left it to dry for a couple hours. But now, whenever I close the lid & the computer goes to sleep, the optical drive keeps making an eject noise (every TEN SECONDS, incredibly annoying). When the computer is open and running, this doesn't happen.
Also, I just popped a DVD in there to test the functionality of the drive, it recognized it and went straight into DVD Player, so that's fine. However, it's hard to get discs to come back out ... it looks like the spilled liquid has dried but stiffened the felt(?) along the insert slot for DVDs/CDs ... when I try to eject, it makes a noise like it's trying to get the disc out, but can't. I used a paperclip (gently!) along the opening and that loosened it up enough to get the disc to eject, but it's still dirty... any ideas on how to clean that without taking the whole computer apart?
I'm having one other issue now, and I don't know if it's related... when I use the trackpad, it won't recognize it if I use my fingers to tap & select items instead of clicking them with the button. But I can still use two fingers to scroll. I checked in System Prefs, it says I should be able to do all the mouse functions by tapping the trackpad, so I don't know what the problem is. :-\

Optical Drive Difficult to Remove

Product Name HP Pavilion DV5000
Product Number EP411UA#ABA
Model Number DV5020US
I need to replace the optical drive. I've consulted HP video and relevant service manuals and the topic is covered quite satisfactorily with one exception.
The exception is the drive is hard, very hard if not impossible to budge from the laptop. The video implies it will slide out once the retaining screw is removed. Wiggling the case does nothing to loosen it. I'm not to crazy about prying against a PCB at the bottom of the well. Not impressed with levering against a plastic screw hole. A cold chisel and hammer would be counter productive in my way of thinking.
I am performing a clean install of XP Home. The system does not operate the drive even though bios clearly sees it. DOS boot utilities fail to startup.
So any helpful suggestions in getting the optical drive out?"

Try ejecting the tray and pull on the tray fully extended. The drive is junk anyway so no need to be squeamish.

ML on MP swapped upper & lower optical drives

I've got 2 SATA burners installed in my early 2008 2x2.8. They are differnt brands (upper is Lite-On, lower is Sony) and both are relatively new- I installed in the past year and used under Lion. When I first installed them, it was trial and error hooking up the SATA cables to each drive to make the eject key open the upper drive and option-eject open the lower.
A clean install of ML swapped this.. the eject key opened the lower drive, and option-eject opened the upper.
So, I swapped the cables going to each drive, but the eject key still only opens the lower drive.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

Memory dropping out is a sign that it has failed. Those problems can be made to go away, but usually not for long, and definitely not permanently.
Keep a close eye on it. If you ever thought of doing a memory upgrade, now may be the time.
Use Apple Menu > About this Mac > ( More Info ) > Memory ...
... to take a look more frequently. Any that are missing or half their expected size, or status other than "OK" have died.

Pushing optical drive tray to close / eject key

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