Hey BTS,<BR><BR>was reading your posts, i know you hav the solutions and Im curious about this, your problem was not being able to eject the CD for lack of an eject button, during the setup process.

Hold Down the mouse button at startup In some cases holding down a connected mouse button at startup will cause a misbehaving optical drive to eject its media.

Is the CD Eject button on most drives a simple momentary switch with two polls? I've taken mine apart (I'm no EE) and it seems the witch has four posts, three of which APPEAR to go to the same ...

And, of course, holding down the mouse button at startup will also typically eject the tray and allow you to insert a CD - if you work fast enough to do so before the hard drive startup kicks in.

The original Xbox’s disc eject button was the most important button on the console — even more so than the power button. And Microsoft’s emphasis on the disc drive reflects an ongoing shift ...

Joey Hess, a developer contributing to Debian GNU/Linux, has shoehorned a fully functional PC into a portable boombox stereo. Two USB ports are embedded in what used to be the CD eject button, and ...