I was burning CDs with my G5 PowerMac one day when suddenly, after finishing one CD, the thing refused to read another CD ever again. I tried blank CDs, burned CDs and retail CDs ... no luck.

So I took it to a local shop. The repairman later reports that "it was reading CDs just fine" and he didn't see any problems. So I bring it home and try again to find that: no, it still won't read any of my CDs.

Frustrated, I take the G5 to a different shop, this time an official Mac shop (just to be sure). A few days later, the Mac repair guy reports: it ran fine. He tried CDs of all kinds, DVDs, burning CDs, burning DVDs ... everything he could think of. They all worked. Perplexed, I brought it home again to find, once again, that my computer apparently just has a grudge against me personally.

I am completely baffled. What could possibly be causing this?


update:
This is fun: now my computer will happily play DVDs but still refuses to run a CD. It seems my computer wants to watch movies.

Wow...

i had this with my ibook G4, apple replaced the optical drive under warranty, still didnt work. sent it off to apple proper, they replaced the data cable......

worth a try? i forget the layout of a G5 and if that is even something you can do or apple need to do. but the symptoms you describe are the EXACT symptoms I had with my ibook

If I were you, I'd take it pack to where they said it worked and have them show me how they did it using one of my disks.

No kidding, I'm with Chakris on this one. " Excuse my ignorance but if I could humbly request how you accomplished this feat that I am having no luck in doing so ? Here Show me ! "

I like that idea. I'll give it a shot.