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February 20th, 2005, 11:20 AM
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| Opening a Powermac Quicksilver CD Tray Is there any way to open the CD tray if the Eject button on the keyboard is not working? It's a Quicksilver G4 so there is no button and no place to put a metal in to force the tray open. The Apple keyboard doesn't seem to work in classic. And NO, opening the Tray in Mac OS X is NOT a solution. I'm not gonna reboot the machine every time if I have to insert a CD when one is not already inserted. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Frederik-Jan  |
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February 20th, 2005, 11:24 AM
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| I know nothing about the Quicksilver, but does it have a small hole near the drive, in which you can insert a paperclip to manually eject the drive?
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February 20th, 2005, 12:18 PM
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| Under OS 9, try holding down the F12 key to open the optical tray. You may need to keep it held down for a few seconds.
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#4
February 20th, 2005, 12:35 PM
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| Under OSX you can ask the open-firmware to do the eject: Reboot the mac, and WHILE it is rebooting, press the Code: <CMD><ALT><O><F> Code: Eject CD <retunr> Continue with boot by typing Code: mac-boot<return>
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February 20th, 2005, 12:38 PM
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February 20th, 2005, 10:10 PM
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| I was able to open the cd tray using iTunes software
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February 22nd, 2005, 02:21 AM
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| Try this, add the eject button to the menu bar. Edit the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file located in your library/preferences directory. After the <key>menuExtras</key> tag add <string>/system/library/CoreServices/MenuExtras/Eject.menu</string> logout-login, look at the top right ofthe screen a smallejectbutton should appear. Is this helpful?
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