Wo! Now that! I didn't know! Just hold down the mouse button? OK, I gotta
two clicker mouse, so I assume you mean the left mouse button.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Kilburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: A Dreadful problem senario
Chris,
To force the CD tray to open, you can hold down the physical mouse button
while the startup chime is ringing and continue holding it down until the
tray opens. This will open it whether there is a CD resident in the tray
or not.
This along with other tips is available on my web-site at:
http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/tips.html
or
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/tips.html
Later...
On 10-Sep-08, at 4:32 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.
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
