[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.

[Simon]

Your DVD drive is probably toast. Slot-loaders have a terrible reputation. Many fail after just a few months. It's no surprise the one in your 7 year old PB has failed too.

[P]

What happens if you try to boot from a system disc (startup with the "C" key held down)?

[ajprice]

An aluminium iMac did a similar thing in work last week, after a phonecall to support trying a few things, what eventually worked was turning it off and unplugging it for half an hour. I don't know why or how but this did work and the iMac accepts discs again now. But as yours is a laptop I'm not sure what you would do as the equivalent (turn off and remove the battery for half an hour? )

[RevEvs]

I post this in all threads where MBP/PBs have CD issues - try a CD cleaner, worked wonders for me.

[nickw311]

I had the same problem on my MacBook when it was 2.5 years old. The drive was burnt out and got replaced under Apple Care.

To be fair though I used the drive a lot and it didn't surprise me that it went out. That's what Apple Care is for.