Help: Mac CD player won't work

Subject: RE: Help: Mac CD player won't work
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 28 Jul 02 - 05:17 PM

Thanks, Nick. It started working again of its own accord, must have been just having a bad day. But I'll keep your advice in mind in case it happens again.

Subject: RE: Help: Mac CD player won't work
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 28 Jul 02 - 10:53 AM

Do you have I tunes? I was having problems burning CD's I reinstalled from the os9 disc and it worked. Eairlier this spring it had stopped seeing any CD's but was finding DVD's. They had to replace the CD unit in the computer, itwas fortunatly under warentee.

So try to reinstall first

Nick

Subject: RE: Help: Mac CD player won't work
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 02:40 PM

The chances are it is not a hardware issue. First line of attack would be to search for a Preferences file for the player, and if there is one, throw it away. Then try the player application again. It will generate a new Preferences file when you start the application. Frequently happens that these prefs files get corrupted by some transient error, and mess up the paplication, but it is a simple remedy and it often cures mysterious bugs.

I suggest you also zap the PRAM before re-trying as it may have a bum parameter in it from some earlier point in time.

A

Subject: RE: Help: Mac CD player won't work
From: M.Ted
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 01:37 PM

I had a similar problem, and solved it by doing a manual re-install the of the DVD-CD Driver--my situation was even worse than yours because my drive didn't even want to read the CD I'd created with the OS installers, so I ended up e-mailing myself the driver--my recollection is that I was running OS 9 and I ended up getting the driver from OS 8.5--I went to MacFixit, and found that many people were having the same problem--my solution is posted there,probably with more detail on the fix than I remember right now--

Subject: Mac CD player won't work
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 05:04 AM

Tech help here please, from musical and Mac-ical types. My PowerBook has stopped reading recorded CDs, though it will read *commercially* produced ones. Do I just need to clean the lens, or is there something more wrong, dja think?