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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chicken" data-source="post: 354537" data-attributes="member: 28836">The problem with booting from the install disks, is don't think I'll be able I can't open my CD drive...actually, it seems all functions are inoperable when I turn the machine on.  I have to look at this again when I get home, as I'm at work now...Once I turn on, I hear the initial start up, but the video monitor doesn't even come on, and keyboard functions seem nonexistent from when I was pecking away at it in disgust..........In the event I cannot get my CD drive to open fr the eject button...can I just pull it open manually? ..and if I can, once closed, will the machine automatically read the disk?  As it seems it doesn't want to do anything.Thanks for your repsonse.</blockquote>