iMac wont eat

[LeVoir]

So out of nowhere my imac wont take any discs....this happened before and for some reason it foxed itself...no its doing it again...anyone know WTF??

 

[John Doe 57]

What is happening? You can't inject discs, eject disc or the iMac wont read discs?

Either way the drive is probably dirty or busted:
http://www.macworld.com/article/141552/2009/07/ejected_cds.html

 

[rgarjr]

well did it ever occur to u that maybe it is not hungry.

 

[LeVoir]

so the discs im trying to put in are brand new.
my kids dont touch my mac.
the command-option-p-r didnt work....
it actually took a disc 2 minutes ago..didnt make any noise...then spit the disc out onto the floor....it was quite funny actually...i think its fubared...

 

[John Doe 57]

i think its fubared...

Yeah I would agree. It can be replaced but not repaired.

 

[LeVoir]

The weird thing is that it has done this before and seemed to fix itself....

 

[John Doe 57]

It's probably dirty with dust covering the lens. See the information here:


http://www.howtodothings.com/computers/a3631-how-to-clean-a-cd-rom-drive.html

 

[shivapashupati]

Why use this drive at all?

Here is what I always did since i have an iMac: as we all know that the temperature inside those iMacs can get a little hot, I decided to always use an external DVD-R drive, to keep things cooler inside the iMac. (You can get a good one for quite cheap these days!) Also repairing the iMac internal drive is a costlier undertaking than merely replacing an external drive. I think I used my internal drive once or twice mostly to see if it was working! Just my two cents...