Discs eject without reading

[vader33]

My wife has a PB G4 15". No matter what kind of disc is put in the drive, it gets spit out about 3 seconds later. Also, we have a 120 GB external HD that works just fine with our eMac, but no joy with the PB. Any ideas? The PB is about 7 years old. Works great, other than the USB/CD/DVD thing.

 

[sushi]

Have you used a lens cleaner CD?

It might be that some lint/dust is on the lens and so it cannot read the CD/DVD and thus spits it out after a short while.

 

[chion542]

How to resolve this?

Have you used a lens cleaner CD?

It might be that some lint/dust is on the lens and so it cannot read the CD/DVD and thus spits it out after a short while.

My iMac is doing the same. How do i access the DVD optical reader to remove lint, or clean it?

 

[w00t951]

For a Macbook Pro/ Powerbook, remove the back cover, and keep track which screws went where. However, on an iMac, I'm not sure that you can do it...

 

[kolax]

Do not remove the optical drive to clean it...!

Simply buy a DVD cleaning kit - which simply consists of a DVD with a tiny bit material on it which will clear any dust on the lens of the optical drive.