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Alexander's Horse is offline Alexander's Horse
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How do you unjam a CD tray Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

My genius children left a CD in the tray of their comp.

Now it won't open manually. The game tries to load instead.

I tried the eject command but it didn't work.

Its happened before. There is a solution but I forget what it is.

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You could try to panmunjam it by inserting the tip of a paperclip into the little hole on the front of the drive. Or rightclick -> eject the drive in Windows Explorer.

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Also, often you can just hit the eject button as the machine boots. If it boots too quickly, just hit F8 or Del to get into the Bios adjustment screen, and then hit the button. Or you can fight with that little manual ejection hole like Winston suggested - usually a pin or a straightened paper clip works fine. Both of mine are in the center of the lower part of the front panel of the drive, below the CD drawer.

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Use a hammer. There's nothing a hammer can't fix.

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Either that or they can play Sponge Bob Square Pants forever....

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Use a hammer. There's nothing a hammer can't fix.

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If I got a hammer I'd be more likely to use it on the kids.

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Use a hammer. There's nothing a hammer can't fix.

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take the cup out of the tray

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FAFU.

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Start -> Run -> cmd:
c:\> del *.* /

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oh yeah... and Format C: works too!

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Buy a new computer

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You're right, Hex, its the only solution

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hey this is serious - when the 4 year old couldn't load Jumpstart First Grade, he cried.

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He's the 4 year old, he's the one who's supposed to know how to fix these things.

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Well he might be genetically disadvantaged in some mysterious way when it comes to computers..

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I got the cd tray open - a combination of rebooting, button pressing and a pin, not sure which worked but thanks anyway.

the game kept trying to load itself when I tried to eject it - that was the problem.

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What... No hammer?

I'll bet it was the pin. That has worked everytime I've had a problem...

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yeah there was a kind of click when the mechanism unjammed

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Remove this text

Did you try toasting it?

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I just know the first thing those little morons are going to do is put the same CD in

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oil it so it won't stick

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Send kids across border, make new ones.

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Put a slice of pepperoni in the CD tray.

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maybe I should poke the kids with the pin

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how come you´re unable to just eject the CD from the control panel? Can´t you do ALT+TAB to exit from the game?

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It's AH, he couldn't Alt+Tab to do anything apart from attaching the sunglassed smiley.

 
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