Jon Tydda
jon at tydda.plus.com
Fri Aug 26 15:30:39 CDT 2005
No word of a lie here, a friend of mine once opened a Compaq server to replace the memory on it, and found a rubber chicken inside the chassis. The server had never been opened by anyone at the company he was with, as the sticker seals were intact, and he only did it once the warranty had run out... He couldn't believe it... I have a photo somewhere, I'll see if I can find it and post it somewhere for you to look at. Funniest thing we ever saw in a computer :-) Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: 26 August 2005 20:23 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Manually eject CD from a drive without a tray Looks like I'm going to have to take it out as I can't find an answer for another method. This is one of the old proprietary compaqs so it will be interesting... -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:35 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Manually eject CD from a drive without a tray When you say "without a tray", do you mean it's just a slot that the cd fits into? I have one of those on my old pc... Mine still has the little hole for a paper clip to go into, there also one on the back of the drive. Although how that's supposed to be easily accessible I've yet to figure out. Zip drives do that too... One on the front, one on the back, and one on the side. Take it out and have a good look around it is my advice :-) Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: 26 August 2005 15:15 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] Manually eject CD from a drive without a tray Had a fellow call and ask if I could get his "new" computer past a password for him that he didn't know. He bought this PC at an estate sale and didn't know any passwords. After a couple of questions I determined it was the bios password and so that was a quick fix but since he had to drop it off I'd check it over for him while I was at it. Poor dude just bought a Compaq Presario with a Pentium (1), 32MB of RAM, 6GB HD and WIndows 95. The things is built like a tank though and runs quite well. My problem is that it has a CD Drive without a tray and the bugger won't cough up one of my CDs! It worked with other CDs before this one. Of course with a tray system they have the little hole where you can manually open the tray. But I have no idea how to manually eject this thing. Any Ideas? John B. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net