Re: queztion about Optical drives in the MacBook Pro

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
Yes, that is on the list as another test. I have not run this test or strapping another clean install I have on an external drive and testing against that as well. Scott On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: > If you believe it could be preference item, the best way to check this

Re: queztion about Optical drives in the MacBook Pro

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
Thanks, but I am more than certain it is not the drive. The drive was replaced nearly a year ago. Again, this turned out to be a software issue since a complete install of SL resolved the problem. SOmething is messing things up and I'm going to try and figure out what. As I said, the one good th

Re: queztion about Optical drives in the MacBook Pro

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
I would love to do that, but we do not have an APple store handy and well um, it is not under warranty any longer. Hell, this one stumped the techs when it was under warranty. Yeah, I somehow neglected to get the Apple care, but won't next time. :) Of course I want an answer more than I just wan

Re: queztion about Optical drives in the MacBook Pro

2011-01-11 Thread Jon Cohn
If you believe it could be preference item, the best way to check this is to set up an additional account in syste preferences and see if you get the same results there. I have read one recommendation to set up a Guest account, since then everytime you log in it is a clean set of files / pr

Re: queztion about Optical drives in the MacBook Pro

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Ford
Hello, I had that same problem, the solution was to take it to the apple store and have the drive replaced. Hope that this helps. Scott On Jan 11, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > Hi all, > > Well I encountered a rather odd problem that a total reinstall resolved once > before,

Re: queztion about Optical drives in the MacBook Pro

2011-01-11 Thread Earle M. Harrison
Hi, Do yourself a favor and set-up an appointment with the Apple store and bring it in if this is an option. As long as you can reproduce the problem the should be able to fix it at no cost to you and get he matter resolved and over with. I had a problem with my track pad about a month ago, m

queztion about Optical drives in the MacBook Pro

2011-01-11 Thread Scott Howell
Hi all, Well I encountered a rather odd problem that a total reinstall resolved once before, but that just is not going to be an option whenever this comes up. I have no idea what is causing this problem, but my internal DVD drive will no longer view the contents of a disc. In fact every disc I