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Jan 19, 2009

I recently came back from a holiday to find that my CD/DVD drive on my intel iMac has stopped working properly. If i put any sort of CD or DVD in the slot in makes a few sounds a just pops it back out about 3 seconds later.

Any ideas on what i could try to get it working again. Maybe reinstalling firmware or something.

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