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Old April 24th, 2008, 10:30 AM
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OSX show blue screen w/spin only, disk drive won't open

Mac OSX v10.4 tiger disk full and now won't start up. It showed lines of adaptec warning: SCSI reset detected and keep coming up non stop. After force quite and now Mac OSX shows blue screen w/spin only; I tried to start with CD but disk drive won't open. How?

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Old April 25th, 2008, 06:41 AM
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At startup, hold down the mouse button or the eject key of the keyboard and that should open the tray or eject the disc.
Did you try Safe boot or booting up in single user mode?
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