Chuck writes, <Never heard of the 'mouse & power button' = eject.
What works for me is 'mouse button' ONLY --- while booting. of course.> Yes, that's it -- while the G4 is powered down, hold down the mouse button while simultaneously pushing the power button on the G4. The machine will boot up, but also the optical drive will open, so you can take out the CD (or DVD) which got "trapped" when the machine malfunctioned. I don't know why it didn't work for me yesterday (needed to get my game CD out of the machine). I was thinking maybe it was my "new" scroll wheel mouse which I didn't have back in March 2007 when, IIRC, Dana Collins told me to do this, and it worked then), so I temporarily switched back to the Apple Pro Mouse, but it still wouldn't work. So that's why I came screaming for help from the list. LOL. Thankfully Kris Tilford's "hold down the shift key" suggestion worked -- I was able to boot extensions off in 9, change startup disk back to OS X, get back in Tiger and my game CD out of the machine (the normal way -- keyboard's eject button) so I could use the CD drive for the Mac OS 9 CD. ~Yersinia. ________ "If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from?" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
