[Cube] Re: Faulty optical drive

[haugwarb at nt.ntnu.no]

Quoting Seth Maynard <sethwm2 at gmail.com>:

> On 9/5/06, haugwarb at nt.ntnu.no <haugwarb at nt.ntnu.no> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been running my old G4 Cube for years without trouble, except
> that
> > the DVD player sometimes gets stucked in the middle of a movie.
> This
> > happens at the same location every time, and the failure has quite
> > persistently survived all software upgrades up version 10.4 (which
> > rules out any driver problems I believe). Playing the same DVD on a
> > PowerBook G4 works fine, so the problem must be due to the CD-drive
> > itself. Is there any chance I can get hold of replacement drive or
> > maybe a third party drive that will work? I mean without spending
> > another $1000?
> >
> > Tore Haug-Warberg
> >
>
> You might want to try anouther CD in the drive becuase the cube drive
> might be more sensitive to a certain kind of disk. Try that. Also it
> is very inexpensive to get them from ebay or... OWC other world
> computing...
> --
> Seth Maynard
> Sethwm2 at gmail.com

That might be. My impression is that DVDs from some producers are more
likely to fail than others. However, the malfunction is so frequent
that I don't won't to live with it. From what I've learned today it
should be quite straightforward to replace the disk.

Tore Haug-Warberg
haugwarb at nt.ntnu.no