HELP! Update - still swearing at MAC, HELP!!!

[Cyberus]

I picked up a Mac clone months ago. It came with nothing, so over the course of a few months, I got a keyboard, a mouse and monitor cable.
Today I plugged everything in for the first time and fired it up. (I had to borrow a VGA monitor from a friend too). I got the MacOS screen, then nothing.....
Hmm, I thought,

I put a MacOS9 install CD into the CD-ROM, rebooted the machine....and nothing...well, that is to say the monitor goes to standby, while I can hear the fans of the Mac. But, anyway, back to that CD I put in the CD drive...the CD-drive won't open now!

Arrgghhh!

I'm gonna get the beast apart now. Just wondered if anyone had any obvious suggestions? :-?

[Cyberus]

Arrrgh!

I new when I saw there was one reply to my thread that it'd be a sarky comment!

[Cyberus]

Thanks for the advice people, I'll give it a proper read

Its a Power Computing 604/133.

I've never even used a Mac before - so I thought I'd give it a go. Also, i've got this cool Latin/Cyrillic keyboard I was hoping to use (I'm learning Russian).

edit:

Then, reboot your mac puching down the left "shit key"

:lol:

[Cyberus]

Yay!
I held down the left 'shit' key and it worked!
Thanks serge.

Its got loads of strange old data on it, incl Quark Express and some other stuff. The machine has a zip drive, is the mac os like an amiga, inasmuch as I could copy across some of the stuff to a zip disk, reinstall the OS and then copy the data back?

Cheers

[Cyberus]

Ok, update:

It will boot into 'safe mode' with the #### key held down.
When I put the MacOS install disc into the drive, it gives me a command line. What do I do now?

Also, I've tried booting off the CD by holding down C and D at startup, and holding down C at startup, but then it boots with the extensions and the screen just goes black. Can I actually boot of CD with this Mac?

Help!!!

[Cyberus]

Yeah, I have a Power Computing one

IIRC, the Atari was meant as a 68k Mac clone...CMIFIW :-D