IMac :: Imac 27" Brief Mechanical Ejection Sound From Dvd Drive When Booting Up

Dec 2, 2009

Had a quick question. I'm on my third 27" stock 3.06Ghz imac that was replaced yesterday. The good news is that so far it doesn't seem to have any of the problems of my previous two 27" imac's. There is one thing though. A couple of seconds after pressing the power button to bootup there is a brief mechanical sound from the dvd drive like a quick ejecting sound even though there is no cd in the drive. My first 27" imac dvd drive made the sound but the second imac 27" Imac I had didn't. Is this sound normal? Would be curious to know why two out of the three 27" Imac's I had make that noise.

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IMac PPC :: G4 800 FP 15" Combo Drive No Ejection Function

Jun 17, 2012

Just picked up this iMac, and it was freshly loaded with Mac OS X 10.2.3. Boots up just fine, gets to desktop normally. 

However, I can't use the Apple keyboard to eject the combo drive that is empty (no CD inside). The Eject menu is greyed out, and even when I drag the Eject icon to the window for favourites, it is greyed out, so I can't eject the drive. 

However, when it boots up , if I hold down the mouse button, it does eject the drive.

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i have been having some problems with a JMicron 0x2329 usb enclosure, on a new iMac. Sometimes it  suddenly unmounts, giving the "improper ejection" warning. To which i usually reply out loud- "No i'm pretty sure i didn't- you did." It doesn't make any difference, it refuses to take responsibility for it's actions. 

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Model Name:                           iMac  Model Identifier:                   iMac12,2  Processor Name:                   Intel Core i5  Processor Speed:                    2.7 GHz  Number of Processors:           1  Total Number of Cores:         4  L2 Cache (per Core):             256 KB  L3 Cache:                              6 MB  Memory:                               4 GB  Boot ROM

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Info:
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Oct 26, 2009

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Nov 20, 2010

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Dec 26, 2010

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Apr 23, 2012

I have a IMAC g5 PPC based machine.It was working fine before several days.Leopard 10.5.8 is intalled on it.Currently i am not able to boot OS.Whenever I power on the machine is stops at brown screen(with apple logo). I have tried to start in safe mode as well as single user mode. I am able to start it in single user mode but after 1-2 mins automattically it shows an error like this. "ioatacontroller device blocking bus" And after that system got stuck. I dont have any OS bootable disk. From where can I download the source of OS which I can install on IMAC g5 PPC based machine. 

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Oct 6, 2009

I can't get any audio whether I'm in Itunes, online, or my own videos. No matter what application I'm in I can not hear anything. I've checked my settings and my volume is on and it is NOT muted.

It was functioning properly til the last couple days.

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Mar 14, 2009

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Aug 4, 2009

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Searching the web, I found this might be an imac G3 with cd tray loading. When powered on, a folder with a question mark shows off.. I read that this might indicate a disk failure.

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Sep 6, 2009

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Next, I flashed the PRAM (big gong, single quieter gong) and afterwards it came to the blue screen.

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Nov 4, 2009

I purchased the last generation iMac G5 when it came out a few years ago and I recently tried to sell it. I sent the item to the buyer and he said it would not start. The Apple logo or for that matter anything would not come up. He brought it to the Geek Squad at Best Buy and they said it was an issue that would most likely cost over $500 in repairs. I just got the computer back in the mail and all that happens when the power button is pressed is the white light on the front lower right hand corner comes on for a second, then the machine shuts down. You can also hear the machine begin to start for about two seconds, then it shuts down. Any ideas as to the problem and whether it is fixable without expensive repair costs?

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Aug 8, 2010

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Jan 26, 2009

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