missing cdrom drive

[bluemoon]

argh... i suddenly found out that that my powerbook no longer detects my cdrom drive! there's no icon no nothing.. whenever i insert a disc, u hear some sound and it does nothing... anyone can help?

 

[fayans]

What kind of CDs did you insert? Music CDs? Data CDs? And what are the settings in the System Preferences?

 

[bluemoon]

it doesn't read any type of disc.. err... it doesn't even detect that i got a cdrom drive...-_-! my whole icon is missing...

 

[fayans]

Have you done 'Repair Permissions' to fix the problem and reboot?

 

[bluemoon]

yeah... nothing seems to help.. tried the reset PRAM too... it just seems as if i never had a cdrom drive at all..>_<

 

[wordmunger]

Just a thought -- try rebooting from the system disk. (restart holding "C")

If that doesn't work, it's almost certainly a hardware problem.

 

[yellow]

Before you do anything else, perform a PMU (Power Management Reset) reset. If that doesn't work, take it in to have it serviced, it's most assuredly a hardware issue.