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Originally Posted by OfaLoaf
I was at my neighbor's house yesterday to help work on a school project. Nothing was happening at the time, so I decided to show them this (commercial) CD with some music I thought would be good with the project. ITunes didn't read it at all when I put it in. So we popped it out and put it bck in. Still nothing.
So we decided to screw that, but left the CD in there.
Now, still nothing was happening. So I started up the neighbor's copy of Warcraft3. My mom critisized me for doing it, so I closed it. Then, after another period of nothingness, I tried to start up his copy of Halo for Mac. It asked for a CD key I didn't do that.
I then remembered that the CD was still in there. I pressed the "pop out CD" button. Nothing.
Now the mac doesn't read the CD drive in there at all, my CD's still in there, and my neighbor appears to be angry at me for it. What can I do?
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turn the mac off. then take a paper clip straighten it out and poke it into the tiny little holy on the face of the CD-rom drive. the hole is in different areas on different brands of CD-roms but its always on the face somewhere. its tiny just big enough for a paper clip to fit through. once in you'll feel it just stop, push hard and you'll force the CD-tray to eject. take your cd out and close the tray again. then just turn the mac back on.
dont worry about damaging the drive doing this, thats why the hole is there.
you see that little hole right above the volume dial on the left side. thats what you are looking for. although it most likely wont be in that same exact spot on the drive you are working on.
2004-05-16, 02:30 PM
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