How do you open the CD drive on an iMac computer?

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Feel free to mock me. It's one of those ones with the monitor on a stalk and no wires connecting anything.

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

try the keyboard.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

f12?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The key on the top right, maybe? That's what my eMac is anyway.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

YAY!!!! the top right key did the trick! (F12 made a noise like a hippie's drum)

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's a little upward-pointing triangle with a bar below it, should be on the top right side of the keyboard.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

To celebrate this, you should put in the best CD you possibly can.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've put in a very celebratory Jackson 5 compilation

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Now eject it! Just for fun!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This is like a technological milestone. I'm even getting down with the volume control. And MUTE! Music goes on, music goes off, music goes on, music goes off...

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

RTFM

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Now adjust the brightness! Do it do it!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I might not be ready for that yet...

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

MAC OS 8

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Most CD drives have a tiny hole in the front of the faceplate. By poking a bent paperclip into the hole, you can open the drive if it becomes jammed.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

not my powerbook!

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This is funny... I asked this question earlier today, and got an exasperated reply. "Sorry!" I said. "The last time I owned a Mac, it didn't even *have* a CD drive."

That said, I'm already in love with my new Mac at my new job.

― Harold Media (kenan), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

Help me, ILX, please, you are my only hope!!!

I think that the CD-drive is broken on my Powerbook. Every time I put a CD in, it just ejects it without even trying to read it.

If I try to use a burning program (Toaster) and insert a blank CD, then it tells me that my CD Tray is open. I don't HAVE a CD try!

Is it screwed?!? Can I fix it myself? Or should I take it back to the shop and have a Professional look at it? And if so, how do I find a professional, since I bought this one in the States and I don't want to have to send it back there?

If I can't listen to CDs or burn music CDs, then this thing is basically a £1000 paperweight. :-(

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone? Hello?

How do I even find an "Apple Authorized Service Provider" in London? Their website seems to be no good whatsoever to people who don't live in the US or Canada.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

www.apple.com/uk

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

there's the apple store on regent street...apparently they have a complicated system for appointments, but they should be able to take a look at it?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks... I wish they explained their complicated appointment system on the website. I don't want to have to haul my computer all the way into Central London only to be told that I have to get in a queue to be told what queue to get into... sigh.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait... the "Genius Bar"? WTF? I hate thinking differently sometimes.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i think you have to call on the day you want an appointment, and they'll tell you when to come in.

from what i hear, the 'fun twist' is that if someone turns up late for an appointment, they just squeeze in in front of you. my friend had an appointment at 1, turned up just before 1, and people that had missed their 11 or 12 appointments shoved in, so he had to wait till 1:40 and wasn't happy.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that's rubbish. I don't see a phone number. They say you have to reseve online. And you can't make an appointment unless you have some "ProCare Card" whatever that is. And it says that all the appointments for today are used up. WTF? Can you not schedule appointments in advance without some expensive service plan that I can't afford?

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

not sure...don't know any more details than i said above. could be worth yell.co.uk to get the phone number and just calling to see what's up?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The only phone number they give is an American phone number.

And how, pray tell, are you supposed to make an online appointment, if your Mac is broken, which would obviously be the reason you NEEDED an appointment in the first place? Thinking differently alright. If by different you mean ILLOGICALLY.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

020 7153 9000

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, Beanz.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

you're welcome

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Only now I have to get over the Phone Phobia enough to actually call. Argh.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it do this for all discs or just this particular disc? B/c I know that it will eject a disc that is improperly formatted. So it might not be a computer problem at all, you see.

Of course, if it's doing that to others or the disc can be read on other (Mac) systems, then yes, definitely need to get it looked at.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it does it to all discs. There were a couple that it was unhappy with before, but then I would put in a different disc and it would be fine. Now it just spits out *all* discs, regardless of if they are data, music, old, new, whatever.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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