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G5 Keeps spitting out DVD-R's
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Sitting in front of computer
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Is it just my G5? or do other people have their superdrives spit out DVD-Rs?
Sometimes it works, but 99% of the time DVD-Rs just get spit out of the drive after a second or so... the G5 wrote these DVD-Rs but wont read them..... very annoying
EDIT: I have a feeling it may just be dirty... :/
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I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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This happened to me. It got worse after time. The drive would never spin up after putting in a disk. It would spit it about after about 5 seconds. I finally replaced the drive with the DVR-108 from newegg.com.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
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yup sounds just like my drive... blowing into it to clear some dust made it work a little better - it now at least attempts to spin up. Will buy a compressed air canister and give it a better clean...
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I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Anywhere but here.
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I've had it with Pioneer drives! It's happened to me twice. Each time I had to replace the drive, it got so bad that it would stop reading even commercial DVD's!
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Oct 2003
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I just had this issue about a month ago on a 1st Gen G5 1.8 Dual. Apple sent me a replacement drive (Via Apple Care). The drive I had was a Sony, They replaced it with a Pioneer. Maby its a dust issue. All those hold may be messing with the DVD performance. Good luck.
Jerr
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Sitting in front of computer
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think ill be replaceing mine with the LG super dooper multi mega dvd/cd everything drive... and it comes in black.. so thats good. ALso its only about �30 and a heck of a lot better than what apple uses... why cant they put decent drives in in the first place! 
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I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
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