Broken disks and stuck in restart
My dad set up our tv as a monitor for our family computer. My little brother shoved multiple disks in the slot and now it's stuck in permanent revving. To add insult to injury, when I tried to restart the computer, it doesn't load and the revving still won't stop. Right now there is a loading bar beneath the apple insignia, but it just turned off unsuccessfully. Please help.
Oh crud..... sounds like you have a problem.
If your family computer is a tower type Mac Pro, I can help you with that. If it's a portable MacBook or something like that, and your little brother shoved too many disks in the slot, you might want to think about taking it in to your local Apple store (and keeping your little brother away from the computer (just sayin'). For the Mac pro, first shut it down and wait until it cools, then take off the side panel. the cd/dvd drive should be at the top, and should be able to be pulled out. Using a #1 or #0 phillips screwdriver, remove the cd/dvd drive from the sled, and disconnect the power and data cables from the back, you should now be able to take the top cover off of the drive itself and extract the discs from the drive. Reverse the process, reconnect the power and data cables and slide the sled back in. Make sure the cable isn't pinched or blocked somehow. It should slide in all the way, then put the side cover back on, push the latch down, and restart your Mac pro. If you have a portable? I dunno. I'm no expert here. Maybe a thin stick with some double sided tape on it, so's you can snag the disk enough to get it out.
if you can, just unplug your mac and shut 'er down, then check on youtube to maybe get a few ideas on how to get those darn discs out of there. I think you may have to reset the smc or PMU. check apple's support section for your particular kind of Mac(which I'm guessing is a portable one) for how to do it exactly. Otherwise...well...take 'er in, and change the access privileges on your little brother's account. I think there's a way so's that can not access a cd/ dvd. If that helps (which I don't think it does)
sorry to hear about your problem. I don't know what else to suggest apart from the previous, or getting a cheap dvd player at Walmart/Target
John b
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