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Mac Guru's - DVD Drive is foobarred
My ancient G3 PB has been getting more troublesome playing DVD's recently and tonight I discovered a split in the ribbon between the drive mechanism and casing. Can this be fixed cost effectively or should I write it off and rely on an external until I upgrade my Mac after Leopard ?? I have found a US site selling the same drive (LG DRN8080B) for $200, but is it worth it ??
It's a shame as the machine was to be retired as a work DVD player after my upgrade, and now it can't do that too well :( |
Have a look on eBay, see if there are any cheap G3 PB's going for around $200, perhaps ones with broken screens but the rest of the hardware is ok, then you could swap out the drive.
You might also want to have a look here (go to the main site to use a wizard to select your exact model of PB). Might also be worth looking here as well. |
Fantastic advice as ever :thumb:
So, I currently have a foobarred CD/DVD read only drive. What is to stop me fitting THIS combo drive or even a Superdrive as a direct replacement ? It looks like they utilise the existing housing, but does that include the ribbon :wonder: Please say I can :D |
I bought an external DVD writer for my Macs for £40 from Dabs...
I have two of those PB G3's and both would struggle with disks, especially DVD/CDRs... |
And those PBs are really pushing it to run Tiger so would imagine Leopard wont work.
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My plans for Leopard lie in a new Mac, whether Imac, Mini or another lappy. I haven't even bothered with Tiger and am still running Panther.
When the machine retires it will become a plaything for watching DVD's at w*rk and general mobile duties relating to picture/video, hence my desire to retain its single box status by effecting a repair if possible or even an upgrade to give it burning capabilities which it has never had. With rumours of the Mini up for the chop I am tempted to get one of those to use as a media centre for now :wonder: |
Originally Posted by corradoboy
(Post 6960479)
Fantastic advice as ever :thumb:
So, I currently have a foobarred CD/DVD read only drive. What is to stop me fitting THIS combo drive or even a Superdrive as a direct replacement ? It looks like they utilise the existing housing, but does that include the ribbon :wonder: Please say I can :D |
Already did :thumb:
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Update.
Got a drive from iFixIt and it turned out to be a Mat$h!ta, and they cannot be firmware flashed to RPC1. Sent it back and spoke to a local PC [gag] company who could sell me an Optiarc (NEC/Sony) superdrive for just £30. Their eyes glazed over when I mentioned firmware flashing but they said they'd put their top guy on it the next day. 3 weeks later after hearing nothing from them I called in. they hadn't managed to source a modified firmware patch, but I had. I pointed them in the right direction and yesterday they presented me with a fully functioning CD/DVD RW multiregion capable superdrive :luxhello: Now, for my next trick, I shall make a Mac Mini C2D with multiregion, 2gb and TV recording :D |
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