OK guys, this has not! thank? God! happened to me yet, and God forbid! the
day it does, however, I cannot help but to ask. I do still have my Tiger
system, and you'd better believe I plan on keeping it, but, I just yesterday
finally! got me a Mac running Leopard! God do I love it! It is a Power Mac
G4 just like the Tiger machine, accept this one is 800 mhz. It's gotta 40
gig hard drive. one gigga s d ram, a monitor, a mouse, not sure what type,
and a 24 X CD burner/dvd combo drive. It's a pretty sweet system. Anyway,
there is however one really big problem. Um? Like, bloody hell? The guy
from Craigs list who gave me this thing has no clue about this and suggested
I write yall for help. Basicly, now you tell me if this is not lovely.
Not? The CD drive on the tower has no hardware based button on the front a
the tower. It's not slot loading, it actually is a tray, just like normal,
but no open/close button. So, then, I got this keyboard. OK, well, this
keyboard is kind of interesting. It's newer than the keyboard I got with
the Tiger box. Basicly, it looks almost identical to a windows keyboard
with very few differences. For one, above your arrow keys, instead of a
6pack, you got a 9 pack. Basicly in that 9pack, on the top is F13 through
F15. Then below that is help, home, and page up. Finally, the last row is
delete, end, and page down.
Then you got your number pad, and above 7 8 and 9 is clear, equals, divided
by, I think? then multiply. Now, getting back to the CD thing... I ran off
on this tangence for a reason. So, stick with me. Above this, you got four
buttons. You got vol down, vol up, mute, then eject.
Well, the keyboard is not plugged into a hub. It is going directly via USB
into the tower. Well, the eject key is doing absolutely nothing. btw, to
the right a the space bar is command, then another option key, then a right
control key. The guy said this was a much newer keyboard. The end of the
USB plug feels real smoothe like the IPod USB plugs feel. The keyboard is
kind of a shiny tannish/off white color. There are no feet on the bottom of
it to slant it up. Not that they're broken off, they're just not there.
They never were. Now, I can find in my desktop, the CD volume, and hit
command e on it, and that works. Then to get the thing back in, I just take
my hand and very lightly push the tray, and it goes back in. Well, this is
all good, and I also have if I vo m twice, then vo right a few times, I do
have an icon that says eject. Now if I vo down on that, I do see one menu
option which says eject combo drive. If I vo space on that, it definitely
does eject. Also in ITunes, if I do command e, it opens. Where the
underlying problem, however is, is, ok, I turn my system on one day, well,
o? sh**. It won't boot up. Great. Lovely. So CD stuck in the drive or
not. That eject key ain't workin. So, I gotta get a Leopard disc in that
bloody thang. how 'em I gonna do that though, if I can't boot to the OS to
get to that volume and command e on it? How can I do that if I can't get to
ITunes to eject it. How do I do this if I can't get the menu bar icon to be
accessible? And, finally, how do I do this, if the damn eject key won't
work. See? I'm kind a screwed at that point. Unless yall know something I
don't. Do yall know a way maybe we before bootup maybe like during bootup
could trick the drive into openning? While booting, command e won't work.
I already tried. Apparently, Command E only works in ITunes, or on a
selected mounted volume. I guess in theory, I could always leave my damn
Leopard disc in the drive, just in case, but, that's kind a pathetic.
There's gotta be a better way. I am totally perplexed why the eject key
won't work. I even mounted an external volume, made sure cursor tracking
was on, highlighted it in the desktop, then hit the eject key instead of
command e, but that didn't even unount the thing. I turned off voiceover,
and it did no good. I'm just wonderring if maybe even though this keyboard
has that key, maybe it isn't supported with this tower. BTW, this keyboard
doesn't have an on/off power button. you gotta do it on the tower itself.
I dono if this is a newer IMac keyboard, or what. Again, God forbid the day
this senario happens, but it would be nice to be able to rest assured that
if this does wind up happenning, I have no reason to pannick. If it
crashed, I don't wanna have to take that darn thing into a store, and say,
hey I crashed and there's a CD in here, can you pop it out for me? It's
like, o, gr'r'r'rate, not again, Cr'r'ris.
So, yeah, if anyone's got any idea, let me know please. I'll check and see
maybe if there are any software updates that'll fix it, but somehow I doubt
it, being last night, I updated everything to the most current, or so I
thought I did. Although even if I didn't! you'd still! think I could get
the booger opened before it fully booted.
Anyway, this is really kind a pannicking me, not that it's gonna crash any
time soon, I hope, but, knowing if it does, I don't have a way to really
deal with it, um, yeah.
Chris.
- A Dreadful problem senario Chris Gilland
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