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Question ... I have an Ibook G4 @ 1.42 Ghz 14". Recently, my computer was starting not to recognize the drive. It's wierd. Sometimes it'll work fine. Last night, I put in a DVD and in the middle of it, it just stopped playing / froze. I had to restart the computer. When the computer came up, it wouldn't show DVD icon on the desktop (you know when you put a DVD or CD in the drive it'll come up on the desktop) I restarted the DVD player program and it said, DVD Drive could not be found. Went in to ABOUT THIS MAC, under CD Drive, it said drive could not be found. I couldn't get my DVD out. Finally one of my friends showed me when you restart the computer, hold down the eject button and it'll eject (which it did) After I got it out, I put it back in and IT WORKED FINE! Not the first time it has done this. Would it help if I cleaned it? One of those CDs you put it that cleans the drive? Or does this mean, the drive is starting to go and I need a new one? Before I asked my friend for help, I restarted the computer 5-6 times and each time it did the same thing; not being able to recognize the drive.

Thanks in advance

It has the DVD R/RW CD R/RW combo drive.
 
Posted Sun 21 Oct 07 @ 5:54 pm
have u downloaded all the latest firmwares for the drives because there was a known bug with that model

with cds not being read i used to get this until i upgraded firmware
 
how do I do that? It's internal. how do I find out what I have?
 
 
no firmware updates available.
 
what did the profiler say?

have you run the hardware test disk supplied with your g4?
 
There is a hardware test disk? The only disks I got were the restore CDs. The profiler said im using firmware DMP2
 
Quest... any idea on this one?
 
do you have the Matshita UJ-845E dual drive?

 
skyfxl wrote :
do you have the Matshita UJ-845E dual drive?


Yes I do.
 
 
Thanks, but it made it worse.
 
try to run software update now

if still no joy i think its time to take it to the apple repairs guys or perhaps time to get a newer mac for 10.5 and vdj 5
 


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