Thanks for the suggestions! > Hold down the Mouse Button as you restart the computer. I should have mentioned that I already tried that. No luck. > Re-start with the trackpad button pressed. Ditto. > Do you have toast? If so , launch toast and hit the eject and see what > happens. I do have Toast. But it says "<No Disc>" and eject does nothing. No CD on the desktop, no sound from the drive. But when I insert a paperclip the drive obviously grinds few several seconds. Hmmm. Bill