Have you tried a paperclip in the little hole to open the CD drive? The link below will take you to a detailed article on it. You might have to remove the drive from its holder to get to the manual eject hole. My Quicksilver has a pioneer drive, FWIW, and I can't get to the manual eject by opening the door. Daniel http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1922?viewlocale=en_US I cannot get the cd drive to open. so no. :( On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote: Will it start with the install CD? If that works, then the Mac is OK. Paul Moortgat -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20100308/5f626558/attachment.htm>