Ejecting a CD in a *dead* MBP

Hey guys
I've got a late 2008 17" MacBook Pro which had it's logic board die. It's completely dead - I boot the machine and get nothing - no chime, no screen, no boot. I've taken it to Apple and if I want to get it working again I need a new logic board. I've elected to get a new laptop instead of doing the repair.
Only problem is, I can see no way to get the Snow Leopard installation DVD that I inserted into the drive to attempt booting off a DVD.
Is there any way to eject a disc with the machine off? And, preferably, without damaging the drive as I'd like to sell it as a spare part?
I've googled around a bit but no-one seems to have any advice for this particular problem
Joe

Hi flukazoid,
One 'last ditch" thought without taking the drive out of the computer would be to try booting in target Disk mode, by holding down the "t" key with the old MBP attached to the new one with a Firewire cable.
Sometimes even seemingly "dead" machines will boot in Target Disk mode, and on recent ones the Optical drive should be accessible through this means as well as the HD.
(I'm assuming you have already tried simply holding the eject button down while pressing the power button on the computer).
Yours sounds properly "dead" though, so I wouldn't be too hopeful of success. Still, worth a try.
Failing this you will have to at least remove the drive from the computer. How hard this is depends on whether the computer is a unibody or pre-unibody model. The first unibody 17" models weren't actually released until early january 2009, but some people refer to them as "late 2008" models, because they were the first of the unibody models in that size and to differentiate them from the updated models introduced in June 2009. Which one is yours?
Once the drive has been removed , you have two options. You either dismantle the drive to remove the disc (see http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Jammed-Optical-Drives/772/1 ) , or you attach it to the appropriate external interface (IDE/PATA if it is one of the earlier, pre-unibody models, or SATA if it is a unibody) hooked up to your USB or Firewire ports and eject it from there. (You may be able to use the "bridge" in an HD external enclosure of the right kind to do this, if you have one to hand and don't mind a bit of temporary dismantling of the enclosure).
Cheers
Rod

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