this isn't a laptop though.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
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Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: A Dreadful problem senario
On a laptop eject is right above the delete key. On my USB keyboard eject
is just above the * on the top right.
CB
Chris Gilland wrote:
but, delete, and eject aren't even anywhere even close to each other on
the keyboard, so how could that! be?
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: A Dreadful problem senario
I think this was an Apple design choice so that folks didn't
accidentally eject their CDs when they meant to hit Delete.
CB
Dan wrote:
Hello,
Under Leopard you need to hold down the Eject key for a second or so.
Dan
On Sep 10, 2008, at 3:51 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
Christ.
I have a G4 Powermac quick-Silver, which I am guessing is what you
have. I have had many older keyboards pluged into it, and Always I
have to be really dirrect when pressing the "Eject" Key. I mean,
sometimes I have to pound directly on the key, in the centre, and it
doesn't always work at once, I mean I have to jab it a few times.
Well, just my two cents worth and what worked for me.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 10-Sep-08, at 3:32 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
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.
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