[Ti] dead cdrom on TI500 - what are my options

[Steve Martin]

Check www.mcetech.com

If you are fortunate to have an MCE authorized dealer nearby they could 
upgrade you to either a CDRW/DVD or "Superdrive" equivalent so you can 
burn DVD's also and do the installation "while you wait".  I had this 
done at Computize in Houston last fall and it took an hour or so.  If 
you do send it in to them for the upgrade, and are willing to pay for 
overnight shipping it should be possible to be without it for as little 
as 36 hours (ship it at 6:00pm one day, get it sent back to you the 
next day with morning delivery).

On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 08:38  PM, mac2 mail wrote:

> I have a TI 500 with the stock CDROM/DVD-ROM drive which has recently 
> died.  It will accept a cd then in a few seconds, eject it.  When the 
> cd is in the drive, the drive never spins up.  I will probably keep 
> this system for another 9-12 months and definately need some type of 
> optical drive.  If for nothing else, Panther will be out in September 
> and I want to load that.  I feel that I have (2) options:
>
> 1. get the drive replaced with another oem drive
> 2. get an external drive
>
> If I go with option (1), I would not want to send the unit off.  I 
> have upgraded the ram in this system and have r&r'ed the oem 20gb 
> drive with a 60gb one.  If a person with these skills could replace 
> the optical drive, this would probably be a good option.  I couldn't 
> live with out my powerbook for any amount of time so sending it off is 
> not an option for me.
>
> If I go with option (2), in addition to the cdrom/dvd-rom, I would 
> like to be able to burn cdrom's.  It is my understanding that Apple's 
> dvd burning software only works with certain dvd writers, so it is 
> probably best if I just wait on burning DVD's till my next system.  
> Also, it goes without saying that since I want to load Panther next 
> month, I would need to be able boot off this external drive.
>
> What are your thoughts??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry K
>
>
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