Yet another Superdrive Won't Work Post

Hello...
I tried to restart or update the FIRMWARE by starting the computer and going through a process of holding down keys.
That didn't work.
I them opened up the eMac and pushed the reset button (PMU or PMI, I think it's called).
That didn't work.
I am just wondering what I need to do to fix this because, granted my eMac is 5 years old, but now it won't recognize any DVDs or CDs, and it did before I started all this. Well, it recognized CDs.
At first the only DVDs it didn't recognize where ones I'd burned from home movies. Now it's all DVDs.
I am in Mac OS 10.3.9. I have 1 GB of Ram. It's an 800mhz Power PC.
I am open to any ideas at this point.
I thank you kindly in advance for reading helping with this.
Evan Jacobs
www.anhedeniafilms.com

First thing to do is run your system through basic maintenance routines. Here is a good page detailing many of the free ones you can download and what they do...
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
You especially want to run the CRON scripts and repair disk permissions.
If that doesn't help, next thing you might try is to create a new user account then log onto that one and see if the drive acts any differently. If it works, then the problem isn't the drive, but something with the settings of the other user account.
Still another test is to whip out your old Restore/Install discs that came with the computer and see if you can boot off of those (hold down the C key while booting). If you can, then you know the drive works at least. If you can't, maybe the drive really is dead.
Also I ran across this completely crazy fix that there are multiple reports it actually works to get a Superdrive working again...
* Open system preferences.
* Go to international
* Under languages: drag any of the other languages to the top, then drag english back to the top.
* Make sure "order for sorted lists" is set to enlish
* Make sure "work break" is set to english(united states, computer)
* Restart the computer
Patrick

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