[X4U] Re: Open tray

[Herbert Marouschek]

The only thing that worked for me was to put the Mac to sleep and  
insert a paper clip.

good luck
herbert

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> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:25:26 +1000
> From: Brett Conlon <brett_conlon at sonymusic.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Re: [X4U] Open tray
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> If the cd tray isn't ejecting by either pressing the eject button  
> on the
> keyboard or holding the mouse button down at startup then can you  
> access
> the eject button on the drive itself. Did you say you were on a G4?  
> If so
> then I'm pretty sure that all the G4 CD/DVD drives have accessible  
> eject
> buttons if you manually open the cover draw on the G4 chassis.
>
> If it still doesn't eject then check cabling - remove then re- 
> attach. Also
> check the bus cables to both your hard drive and CD drive.
>
> If none of this works then try checking your RAM by removing all and
> leaving just one stick installed at a time.
>
> Best o' luck.
>
> Coj
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> <cmedbery at coxinet.net>
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> Does not work. Apparently I don't get that far in the boot process.
> Option-
> restart also does not work.
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