[Ti] Stuck CD in CD-ROM Drive

[Leo D. Venezuela]

At 4:50 PM -0400 13/5/03, John Griffin wrote:
>mburke6225 at aol.com typed this message on 5/13/03 2:30 PM:
>
>>  Leo
>>
>>  DON'T DO ANYTHING!  I have read the responses up to this point and while
>>  everybody is trying their best to help one thing is certain: You 
>>appear to be
>  > a new user.

I'm a new TiBook user but a Mac veteran since 1992. :)

>  >
>>  I have not taken apart the CD ROM of any TiBook I've owned but 
>>have installed
>>  CD drives in other units.  If I were you I would not attempt to 
>>fix this with
>>  paper clips or post it notes or anything else as you could make 
>>matters worse.
>>  The good news is your drive is probably not fried but to confirm 
>>that you need
>>  to get it to a qualified tech. Worst case scenario, if the drive 
>>is busted and
>>  you replace it with one of their drives you won't be charge for checking out
>>  your existing drive and will end up with a new drive (albeit a 
>>purchased one).
>
>What he said.
>
>But short of messing with the guts, you should probably try every method of
>ejecting the disk that you can (using iTunes eject button, doing a reboot
>with the eject button pressed, going into firmware and commanding the
>computer to "eject cd" etc.) I have found that when you have a problem Disk
>in the drive, when you attempt multiple eject procedures, you often get
>lucky just as you are about the give up. The disk will unexpectedly eject!

I've tried to do all of those things but no dice. :( Anyway, I sent 
my unit to a local authorized Apple service center that removed the 
troublesome CD-ROM for PP650 (US$12.50). It took a little less than 
three hours and didn't void my AppleCare program. All's well end's 
well... :)

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