Re: Quicksilver optic drive

2012-01-06 Thread Roger Faulkner
Sorry for the time lapse - holiday ennui. The mouse button worked and the unit is up and running 10.4. Now to figure out why Target disk from either an iBook or emac won't show up on either the Quicksilver or the Cube. Looking for a couple of old airport cards as well. -RF On Thu, Dec 22, 2011

Quicksilver optic drive

2011-12-22 Thread tsaec...@att.net
The optical drive door hinges open at the bottom of the door. It is quite easy to open the door with a finger nail or carefully with a sharp object. Once the door is open you will see the front of the drive its self with it's paper clip hole. From there I think you will know what to do. Tom

Re: Quicksilver optic drive

2011-12-22 Thread Charles Lenington
On 12/22/11 12:25 AM, Roger Faulkner wrote: m8493 drive won't open. HD wiped and went to install new OS. Pro, Chicklet and Mcally keyboards all fail to open drive. No paper clip access. Ideas? Thanks -RF -- Do you have the menu bar icon turned on? Check list archives for instructions. I'll se

Re: Quicksilver optic drive

2011-12-22 Thread dc
On Dec 22, 1:25 am, Roger Faulkner wrote: > m8493 drive won't open. HD wiped and went to install new OS. Pro, Chicklet > and Mcally keyboards all fail to open drive. No paper clip access. Ideas? The optical drive does have a paper clip access hole, it's just difficult to get to it. You can try 1)

Re: Quicksilver optic drive

2011-12-22 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Roger Faulkner wrote: > m8493 drive won't open. HD wiped and went to install new OS. Pro, Chicklet > and Mcally keyboards all fail to open drive. No paper clip access. Ideas? > Thanks Try holding the mouse down on boot. Check the cables to the drive. Try unplugg

Re: Quicksilver optic drive

2011-12-21 Thread David W. Morris
Hold down the mouse button while booting should open the optical drive tray. On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Roger Faulkner wrote: m8493 drive won't open. HD wiped and went to install new OS. Pro, Chicklet and Mcally keyboards all fail to open drive. No paper clip access. Ideas? Thanks -R

Quicksilver optic drive

2011-12-21 Thread Roger Faulkner
m8493 drive won't open. HD wiped and went to install new OS. Pro, Chicklet and Mcally keyboards all fail to open drive. No paper clip access. Ideas? Thanks -RF -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particul