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| Click here to select a new forum. | | iBook G4 spits out all DVD's | Posted by: Gil on 2008-09-30 15:12:23
Just recently, my iBook G4 spits out all DVD's without even reading them. CD's work just fine, and it's a Combo drive, so why would it be doing this? If I put the exact same DVD into my USB DVD Burner, it reads fine... But the internal Combo won't read any DVD's.
Any ideas? :?:
| Posted by: tomlee59 on 2008-09-30 18:00:51
If it's spitting out factory-pressed DVDs (I'm taking your "all DVDs" literally), then your drive is likely toast. Dual-laser drives use an IR laser for CDs, and a red one for DVDs. The red laser is the more fragile of the two, and if it dies, you get the behavior you're observing.
Now, I don't know if your drive has two separate lasers, but many do (in order to maximize compatibility with the various flavors of recordable media).
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