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iBook G4 won;t boot!
Name: mppareto Date: September 26, 2006 at 05:51:23 Pacific OS: N/A CPU/Ram: 1 GHz Product: iBook G4
Comment:
Hi, i just replaced my HDD (the previous one failed) and was about to reinstall my Mac OSX. However, turns out there is a CD already inside. I tried everything to eject it, including Open Firmware (typing "eject CD" displays 'ok' but stays there and nothing happens), holding the 'c' and mouse buttons on boot (not together, of course) and, of course, there is no pinhole to manually eject the CD (go figure). Any ideas on what else i can do? Im always very cautious about calling AASP, since i've always had bad experiences with them.
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