No Emergency Release Hole In MacPro DVD Drive

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No Emergency Release Hole In MacPro DVD Drive

I had a DVD stuck in the drive of my MacPro, tried everything to open the drive, but as nothing would work, I turned off the computer, and hoped to find the little hole under the driver tray that you stick an unwound paperclip in to open the driver. But there is no hole, despite the manual saying that there definitely is.
Does anyone know why this is, and if I'm missing something, and why the MacPro manual is seemingly contradicted by reality, and if there is another way to open the MacPro DVD player in an emergency.
I note that my other drives on my PCs all have this emergency release hole.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.9), 3GB RAM

Posted on Oct 12, 2008 4:49 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 12, 2008 9:12 AM in response to tristanjove

Restart while holding down the mouse button to eject the CD.

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Answer 2

Oct 21, 2008 3:48 PM in response to Chris Ryan1

Holding down the mouse button doesn't work for me. Any other way? I can't seem to find the paperclip hole the manual says is there....

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Answer 3

Axium

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Oct 25, 2008 9:12 AM in response to tristanjove

Hey,

Try this:

Restart the computer.
When you hear the startup sound, press and hold the Command-Option-O-F keys.
Release the keys when you see a white welcome screen.
At the prompt, type:

eject cd

Press Return, then wait a few seconds. The disc drive should eject the disc, and "ok" appears on the screen when the action is complete.
Type:

mac-boot

Press Return.

If that doesn't work you need to open up the computer and slide out the dvd drive.,,, the emergency release hole is not visable unless you pull out the drive.

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