[dissident]

I have a friend with an iMac that shows a disk with a blinking question mark. And there's a cd stuck in the slot cd drive, that he needs to get out to be able to boot from a system cd. Isn't there a way to force eject the cd?

[Dex13]

on the far right side of the slot is a small hole. With a paper clip push into that hole and you will feel it pushing a button, the cd should then pop out.

[Nivag]

Or on startup hold down the mouse button and this will force the cd tray to eject.

Some of the newer macs don't have the paperclip hole.

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by Dex13:
on the far right side of the slot is a small hole. With a paper clip push into that hole and you will feel it pushing a button, the cd should then pop out.

This is with the machine powered up, right? I can never remember. All of the tray-load CD-ROM drives I've manually ejected had a purely mechanical manual release, but I think the iMacs need to be powered up.
Geez, I don't think I could say what I just typed!

[Nivag]

if it's got the paperclip hole it does not matter if the Mac is powered or not.
The person posting says it's a slot loading iMac, so they'll have to use the mouse button down method.

[Dex13]

Originally posted by Nivag:
]if it's got the paperclip hole it does not matter if the Mac is powered or not.
The person posting says it's a slot loading iMac, so they'll have to use the mouse button down method.

0_o

[ryju]

Originally posted by Nivag:
if it's got the paperclip hole it does not matter if the Mac is powered or not.
The person posting says it's a slot loading iMac, so they'll have to use the mouse button down method.

No, they don't HAVE to use only that method. I have a slot-loading iMac and I use the paperclip method only, powered on or off always works. Says it right in the manual.