[siflippant]

Hey ppl,

I think it is... but this also happened a few months back and after a while it started to work again... but as of tonight, my slot loading drive on my 1.5ghz Al 15' doesn't take any disc. It was fine when I last used it 2 weeks ago to burn a DVD and I haven't used it until just now. I seem to have verified the worst by opening up iTunes and trying to burn a playlist but iTunes tells me "disc burner or software not found" - so I guess I'll have to take it in for repair...

I guess when stuff like this happens it's purely a hardware issue and not software? Am clutching at straws here as it seemed to come back to life all on it's own last time but I suppose that was a temporary reprieve...

Thanks for your help in advance...

[siflippant]

Well, this is weird...

put my PB to sleep last night and when I opened it up this morning I heard a slight *cracking* noise (but nothing too disturbing) - the slot loading drive now accepted a cd but it would not mount... I could not eject it either and the dvd player STILL did not recognise the drive/player.

But on reboot it played great and all is good again... will most prob. have to get it looked at some time next year, I'm hoping it will last out 'til then... any ideas what might be happening?

[seanc]

It may be a loose cable/connection.

[amazing]

Have you tried the standard trouble-shooting stuff of seeing whether optical discs load and burn in a second admin user? If that doesn't work, try resetting nvram:

During startup, hold down command-option-p-r through at least 4 chimes, then release. Or use the open firmware method.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
USING OPEN FIRMWARE:

1) reboot while holding option-command-o-f (boot into open firmware)
2) type: reset-nvram (return)
3) type: reset-all (return)
4) the Mac should restart on its own, if the commands have been typed correctly.