On Monday 26 August 2019 19:36:50 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > On optical disc drive where the tray won;t open I first get the tray > open with the emergency eject hole, then use a big pair of bent tip > tweezers to get the tray belt out. Next step, bring some water to a > rolling boil on the stove, drop the belt in and turn the heat off. > After a minute, fish the belt out, dry it off and use the tweezers to > reinstall. Also works on tray load game consoles like the "fat" > Playstation 2, original XBox, and Xbox 360. > > I always preferred optical drives with an all gear driven tray, but > those were few and far between. > > On Monday, August 26, 2019, 2:24:48 PM MDT, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > How often do you use a DVD anymore, especially if the computer is on > > a tall shelf? You might just remove the drive. > > Thats also a possibility, since new installs can often be done with a > netinstall on a thumb drive. IIRC, that dvd had to have 1/4" snipped > out of its tray belt & superglued shorter the last time I used it, > swag at about 2 years ago now. That has been a good fix I've done 4 > or 5 times now. > > We'll see what another new & diff supply with enough drive cables does > tomorrow.
Didn't work, fans run, power led remains orange with 3rd supply. So I guess I put its SSD and 5i25 in another smaller dell and see if its got enough iron to run the g0704. Otherwise I'll have to go shopping I guess. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
