Less than a week ago I finally got around to replacing the microphone on my iMac. Today my roommate decided to watch a DVD on it and forced the DVD in on top of another disc.
The first disc is now lodged deep in the drive. I have tried every method I could find on forums and youtube to remove the disc with no luck.
The drive has been trying to eject the disc for about four hours now so I am going to assume it's dead or will soon be (this is my only computer so I have had to let this go while trying to find a solution).
I have two questions-
1. What is the name of the replacement drive I need to buy? I searched the model number I found on my Macs hardware info screen with no luck....
2. I opened the rear of my older G5 a few times, I am going to assume this is identical but does anyone know for sure?
Model info-
DVD drive
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K06:
Firmware Revision: Q609
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
IMac
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM61.0093.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.10f3
Serial Number (system): W86490R5VGN
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F2C7DB18
Thanks for any help! I just can't believe this happened the same week I fixed it's one minor issue.
The first disc is now lodged deep in the drive. I have tried every method I could find on forums and youtube to remove the disc with no luck.
The drive has been trying to eject the disc for about four hours now so I am going to assume it's dead or will soon be (this is my only computer so I have had to let this go while trying to find a solution).
I have two questions-
1. What is the name of the replacement drive I need to buy? I searched the model number I found on my Macs hardware info screen with no luck....
2. I opened the rear of my older G5 a few times, I am going to assume this is identical but does anyone know for sure?
Model info-
DVD drive
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K06:
Firmware Revision: Q609
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
IMac
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM61.0093.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.10f3
Serial Number (system): W86490R5VGN
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F2C7DB18
Thanks for any help! I just can't believe this happened the same week I fixed it's one minor issue.