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? :-?

[mikeymike]

Macs need to be fed too from time to time, you wouldn't want them to die, would you?

[Cyberus]

Arrrgh!

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

[amigamad]

If its a standard cdrom drive it should have a small hole you can insert something like an alen key to open the tray manualy. Afraid i know nothing much about macs or mac clones i had an o40 mac but it done my head in so i broke it up and kept the 32 meg memory for one of my amiga,s. :-)

[odin]

I used this old 030 mac laptop for a while. The stupid thing didn't have a floppy eject button. :roll:

[mikeymike]

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

 :-P  Can't fail to disappoint :-)

[mikeymike]

If its a standard cdrom drive it should have a small hole you can insert something like an alen key to open the tray manualy.

Paper clip, or the blunt end of a needle sometimes work as well.

[mikeymike]

I used this old 030 mac laptop for a while. The stupid thing didn't have a floppy eject button.

That's because Apple think it's cool to do that sort of thing in software only.

[frankb]

Quite a bit of this was covered in this forum.

BTW, which Mac clone do you have?

[serge]

try to eject the CD with a little wire. Put this wire on the little hole in from of your CDrom and puch it.

Then, reboot your mac puching down the left "shit key" . this will try to boot without extentions."same like without workbench startup drawer"
If nothing happends, insert your MACos CD, reboot your mac and puch down this 2 keys : "C and D". This combination will force the mac to boot from CDrom.

You speak about macos9 ! are you sure your mac can boot with this cd system? If your mac is a 68K model, it will not boot. You must have a PPC to boot macos9.


if your mac doesn't boot, maybe it is a little desapointed. you can reset his bios parameters doing this :
reboot it with the combination key : APPLE + ALT + P + R. You will normaly hear a sound, then a reboot, then another sound, thaen another reboot. Dont keep the combination key. The mac ahve to do 7 auto-reboots. After this try to boot normaly or from the CDrom.

Serge

Then, if it

[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

[Linchpin]

I held down the left 'shit' key and it worked!

Hope you washed your hands :-)

[that_punk_guy]

:lol:

[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!!!