Re: Shot Self in Foot, Need First Aid

2009-01-26 Thread Jack Countryman
Easy enough to make a hole where you need it...using a small drill. The mechanical eject switch is there on the front of the stock cd/dvd drive mechanism. On 1/26/09 4:20 PM, tonycd tonyl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: No hole in my Quicksilver, KP. On Jan 25, 3:54 pm, KP

Re: Shot Self in Foot, Need First Aid

2009-01-26 Thread insightinmind
On Jan 26, 2009, at 4:20 PM, tonycd wrote: No hole in my Quicksilver, KP. On Jan 25, 3:54 pm, KP parishky...@gmail.com wrote: If its a G4 than there is a small pin hole on the right side of the tray. Use a straitened paper-clip to push the small eject button in the pin hole while the

Re: Shot Self in Foot, Need First Aid

2009-01-26 Thread aussieshepsrock
To NOT be very helpful: Don't Aim Higher or To The Midline When Next Handling a Shooting Device. Richard On Jan 24, 12:12 am, tonycd tonyl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi. (Deep breaths.) I have just received my G4 upgrade card (single 1.6 GHz 7447) from OWC. As the first step in failing to

Re: Shot Self in Foot, Need First Aid

2009-01-24 Thread Charles Davis
On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:12 AM, tonycd wrote: Hi. (Deep breaths.) I have just received my G4 upgrade card (single 1.6 GHz 7447) from OWC. As the first step in failing to install it, I have utterly paralyzed my perfectly good Quicksilver 867 before either installing or removing a single

Re: Shot Self in Foot, Need First Aid

2009-01-24 Thread Charles Davis
Hi, (Yeah, I need deep breaths too. GOT to read everything before I answer things!!!) On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:12 AM, tonycd wrote: Hi. (Deep breaths.) I have just received my G4 upgrade card (single 1.6 GHz 7447) from OWC. As the first step in failing to install it, I have utterly

Re: Shot Self in Foot, Need First Aid

2009-01-24 Thread Charles Davis
On Jan 24, 2009, at 10:40 AM, insightinmind wrote: I'm not sure that the Quicksilver will even consider a 'Firewire' drive when looking for possible 'boot' partitions. Startup with alt/opt held down, my QS 2002 did this just fine using the onboard FW connection to an external OWC FW

Re: Shot Self in Foot, Need First Aid

2009-01-24 Thread John Callahan
On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:12 AM, tonycd wrote: Thinking the CD might be a complication, I tried to remove it and couldn't. I popped the case, disconnected its ATA cable, pushed the reset, tried again and still got the flashing ?. (The Quicksilver case, of course, is ingeniously designed so

Re: Shot Self in Foot, Need First Aid

2009-01-23 Thread Jack Countryman
On the various quicksilver machines I've had and have worked on for others, all have had a pin hole in the cd bezel to allow the standard use of a straightened paper clip to eject a cd. If yours doesn't have that pinhole it would be a simple thing to make one with a small drill/bit. The button