08-04-2005, 08:30 AM

Hi there,

The combo drive on the ibook i have just from ebay is not working. It will not see any discs, audio, data, cd, dvd or anything i have thrown at it!

I have sent it back to the ebayer and he says it worked and sent it back with a screenshot of the system profiler! I knew it saw the drive before i sent it back.

When i got it back no cd/dvd loads still. Nothing seems to happen,you can hear the drive spin and make a bit of noise for a few seconds then nothing. I have checked all the settings i can think of (ie. show cds/dvds in finder). I also tried a lens cleaning disc but this cannot been recognised either!!!

I have also tried booting from the disc but nothing happens! Cant even do a hardware test!

I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else or if anyone has some more suggestions other than send it back as i am happy with my new toy, appart from this!

O yeah its a g3 600mghz 20gb, 384mb ram, osx panther.

Will be very thankfull for any help.

Thanks

08-04-2005, 08:44 AM

Ask the seller to troubleshoot you, get him to run you step by step what he did to get it working, try a couple of CD's and when it still doesn't work (if this is still the case) prove it to him and get him to sort it out.

08-04-2005, 09:16 AM

Thanks for that but when he emailed me all he said he did was put a dvd in and it saw it! He also said he booted from the cd!

O and i also attached a firewire external cd burner and it saw the cd i had in there!

Just wondering if there is anything else i can try?


Thanks again.

08-04-2005, 10:19 AM

Just found this discussion on the apple site...

i am going to try the suggestions tonight, if they don't work for me they help someone else, as this may be more common than i thought.

http://discussions.info.apple.com/we...fk.0@.68aa52cb

Fingers crossed.

08-05-2005, 06:15 PM

having found these tips i followed the advice and like many had no luck!

i am still left with a broken ibook, can i run a hardware test from an external firewire cd drive?

or copy the needed files from my imac? or anything else?

Thanks