Thanks for the tips with the screw in the Wallstreet..I think we'd both also prefer to not have to take a hammer to the machine as well...but if we have to, we have to. Also, I don't know about my friend, but I personally don't have a dremel...I'll ask. Thats interesting that you have issues reading CDs in a DVD drive on your Lombard...as I said, I have no issues mounting and reading CDs with this drive on the Lombard, and the iMac has no issues with booting off it. For the record, I actually do have the machine booting off a CD via an external SCSI drive at the moment.

For the record, the drive I'm trying to use with the Lombard (a Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7590A) doesn't have any jumpers or switches on it for switching between Master/Slave/Cable Select, I even took the top off just in case they might be hiding inside, but nup. Thanks for the tip on setting the drive to Master...I'd forgotten about that issue, and it might be why its not booting off that drive...at the moment I'd prefer to not have to solder anything in the drive, just in case I have to use it in a machine that wants it set to CS. As for the hard drive...like most laptop drives, no jumpers.

As for the Wallstreet, with an external display the machine boots and runs perfectly, we just can't see anything on the internal display...hopefully once we get it open we'll find that its just an issue of the internal display not being connected.