[CLUE-Tech] CDROM Tray won't open

[Timothy C. Klein]

* David Anselmi (anselmi at americanisp.net) wrote:
> Randy Arabie wrote:
> [...]
> >I'll pop the case open and have a look at the cables sometime this 
> >weekend.  For
> >the moment, there's some brew callin'...I gotta go take care of that :-)
> 
> While you're at it you can remove the CDROM and open it up.  Shouldn't 
> be too hard but you have to be a little careful to get the front panel 
> (plastic) and the case (metal) off in the right order.
> 
> Then you can play with how it opens and closes with the front button and 
> the paperclip and see if there are any obvious mechanical problems.  And 
> sometimes just letting it know you're serious fixes things ;-)

I always take broken things apart, looking for the big 'On-Off' toggle
switch that happened to get flipped to 'Off.'  I never find it :-(

I actually have a DVD right now that won't eject either, but even the
paperclip trick fails.  When one tries to eject it, it rattles a bit,
but nothing else.  It must be dead.  One of these days I will get around
to dismantling it and looking for that toggle switch.

Tim
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