The short version: Happy ending. Thanks to all of you.
The long version: Bill's mouse-button trick indeed did eject the CD. (A good night's sleep indeed did help, but his reassuring message helped me sleep better, too.) I knew about the physical button on the disk drive, having transplanted this drive into the machine my ownself, but I wasn't up for the physical disassembly involved now (or eager to klutzily drill through the button from the front). Then, it took Charles' suggestion of the four-fingered Vulcan/Twister salute to liberate the startup disk. That worked, too. At this point, I succumbed to puzzlement about the firmware's unwillingness to be re-burned. I called OWC Tech Support, where kindly Dewayne told me the processor button can take up to 10-20 attempts before it'll work. I guess it just physically gets old, dirty and tired. He was right. Once it finally worked (marked by a rapid pulsing of the power-button light), the firmware on-screen message indicated a newfound willingness to be re-flashed. The rest was history. The result (1.6 GHz single, 7447a) is as fast as advertised. The two small onboard fans are just a bit noisy, but the sound quality is not disagreeable, and the way OWC configured the heatsink and the fans would seem to create an airflow path so specific as to foil my Plan B of plopping one really large fan in their place. Success! Again, thank you all. You are a remarkable resource. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
