CD drive dead (but dvd's boot)???

flyinfox

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Help!
A few monthes ago my internal CD reader/writer started acting funnny. Some days the door would not open and close, and it would mysteriously not show up in my system profiler. On other days only itunes would work to open and close the doors, and it would ONLY read music cd's not data cd's. THEN it disappeared completely and did not show up in the profiler, doors did not open and close. NOW it shows up in the profiler, and door will open and close - but
it will not read (or write) ANY cd i put in it. MEANWHILE DVD's work just FINE when put in.

my CD drive (internal) is a PHILIPS CDD5101, firmware A3.5
I have a G4 (mirror doors) Dual 867 MHz PowerPc (2.1)
I am running system X 10.4.11
and also have system 9 loaded (to run some old software i have not upgraded)
9 does not start up until i open old software so it isn't running in the back
ground all the time.

I have tried everything - does anyone have any ideas?

thanks - flyinfox
 
CD/DVD cleaner and if that doesn't work replace the DVD drive, it is not hard in a G4 tower.
 
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