Recent content by bkiser

Mine was the drive itself. Here is what I did: Opened up the case and unplugged the IDE cable from the drive, leaving only the power cable (thereby disabling any communications between computer and drive). Reboot. Drive still wouldnt stay closed, which proved it was the drive (at least to...

I would be more than happy to, as long as someone will send me a free (working) CDRW! :) My problem is that they will not let me talk to someone about hardware without first going through every single possibility with their help desk guy first (for $49.99).

Here is my story: Bought a new PowerMac G4 on 3/23/02. Love it- works great! On 4/17/02, the CDRW mysteriously spits out the CD that was playing- weird. No sweat, I will call Tech Support. Call Tech Support and they say that my complimentary period began on 12/15/01, but if I would like...

I cant believe Korn shell was not an option! Blasphemy!

I have a quicksilver G4- if I put any CDs (audio or blank or application) in the CD-RW, it spins them up, then spits them out. So, basically, its totally useless! I have seen on other boards where other folks have had this problem, but I havent seen a solution- anyone know what to do...

Nope. It fine. Computer is only 3 weeks old. This has me questioning why I bucked trend and bought a Mac!

On my quicksilver 733 G4, any time I now try to insert an audio CD, the CD-R drive closes, waits about 5 seconds, then opens back up. It seems that it only started doing this since I burned a data CD last week, but thats not definite. Is anyone else having this problem?? What's the...