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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

You are probably right. If you put different disks in the CD/DVD bay (that have no significant scratches or gouges) and experience the same effects, there's probably something wrong with the CD/DVD drive itself.

First try to find the most absolutely clean and unmarred audio CD or DVD movie and try to play it all the way through. If you have the same issue then there's likely a mechanical issue. Maybe the read/write armature that moves along the disk has some gunk or something stuck in it and it's causing a problem at a certain point.

If that's the case, it needs to be taken out of the computer and cleaned, or at the very least, examined. Find someone you know who's savvy with computers and offer him a date if he fixes it for you. More than likely, he will not have been with many girls (if any at all) and may even buy you a new computer out of his sheer excitement and joy.

Good luck.