iMac Rejecting DVD's...namely Leopard!

[Wailord]

Yeah, I burned a DVD once, and ever since, it won't read or write DVDs. I'm trying to install Leopard, but it won't boot from the disk, either, just spits them out.

 

[EricNau]

Check your preferences in System Preferences > CDs and DVDs.

 

[Wailord]

What about it? Nothing seems out of the ordinary...
I'm running 10.4.11 on an Intel iMac:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM51.0090.B09
SMC Version: 1.8f2
Serial Number: W8707A0RVUX

 

[Muncher]

I don't want to insult you or anything, so don't take this the wrong way, but are you sure you're putting the DVD in the right way? I know you most likely aren't, but that's an easy problem to fix.

Otherwise, you could have a defective drive. If you have the time, you should take it to an apple store nearby, and if they can't fix it, they might well give you a new one.

 

[Wailord]

For a scary second there, I thought I might be putting them in the wrong way...sadly/thankfully, it didn't work. /
I'm afraid I DO have a defective drive.

I've reset the NVRAM multiple times, too...

 

[Wailord]

After talking with a friend and reading some posts, it seems that the SuperDrive Firmware Update 2.1 may have killed it. The last time I could use it was Junish, right around the time the Update came out. Gonna get it repaired...