iBook: Pressing F12 Does Not Open Disc Tray

  • Last Modified: July 01, 2004
  • Article: TA27327
  • Old Article: 88267
The tray of the optical disc drive may not open if you have disabled the F12 eject media key.

Products Affected

Mac OS 9.2, iBook

Symptom

The tray of the optical disc drive does not open when you press the F12 eject media key.


Solution

Make sure the F12 key is set up to eject the drive tray.

  1. Open the Keyboard control panel.
  2. Click Function Keys. The Function Keys window appears.
  3. Make sure the "Enable Hot Function Keys" and "Use F1 through F12 as Hot Function Keys" options are enabled, or "checked". See Figure 1.



Figure 1 Function Keys window