You could try taking out the HD and putting it into the machine you do not want to nuke yet (yet: your aim to go to 10.3 on both of your machines ensures further nuclear-aggressive thoughts) - as an extra HD, at least to see if you can get anything off it you need (no need to set it as start up).
Your monitor prob: did you say what card you are running it on? Sorry, have forgotten. David Elmo > From: Steven Zerby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PCI] 9600 CD drive won't close, 9600 file sharing won't work > > Hi PCI listers, > > I opened the cd drive tray on my newly acquired 9600 > running system 8.0, inserted a CD, and it spit it back > out. Now nothing I do will get the tray to stay > closed. I push the close button on the front of the > drive, it sucks in, then spits back out. I push the > tray in manually, same thing. I shut down, it sucks > in. I restart, it spits out. It doesn't matter if > there is a disk in the drive or not. > > OK, me thinks, I'll just connect to my 9500 via file > sharing to get stuff onto this beast. I click on start > filesharing, the hard disk endlessly thrashes. I give > up. > > What I would really like to do is nuke and pave this > thing, but it's making it very hard to do so. > > Any help? > > Steve -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
