yeah, I have one of these beasts. I upgraded the RAM heavily, and put in a large 20gb HD. For the longest time it was booting with no video, but something told me to give it another go. It works. For anyone with one of these: the long thin grey cable with the black connector is the one for video. It needs to go with the tab up (there is a notch on both sides of the connector oddly), and push it in securly on both sides, until you hear 2 clicks.

Anyways, the CD-ROM drive is not ejecting. It is odd. I can't get it to come out. I get the grey screen with the :?: floppy, and mouse pointer, but I can't get it to come out.

Here is what I have tried:

-pressing the cuda switch

-doing the command-option-p-r sequence, for 5 chimes

-double checking all my connectors on both ends

-replaced the CD-ROM drive with a 32x from a B&W G3 tower (the one in it was 24x)

-unplugging the hard drive, since I heard this sometimes interferes with the CD-ROM.

Anything I am missing? I want to load this with 9.2.2 and make it a very nice classic machine. It's a 266mhz model, I can tell by the AV personality card fitted. Much nicer than my 233mhz bottom bin G3 tower.

Thanks.

-digital