Faulty Columbus - keeps rebooting with CD stuck in the drive

[Berniebloke]

Hi all

Looking for some further tips again if possible.

My Columbus went belly up on me - just kept re-booting but never getting any further than the splash screen ????. I was going to try reloading the firmware but discovered I still had a CD in the slot. Couldnt eject this as per above it doesnt start up properly. I have now removed the Columbus from the car and put my Bolero back in while I try and get this fixed. My assumption is that I need to open up the Columbus to then somehow get the CD out of it and was wondering if anyine had any tips regarding doing this ?

After reading various posts on tuis corum and others I am hoping that if I can get the CD out that I can then wire it back up to the car and reload the firmware which if I am lucky will fix it !

Would be grateful for any tips or advice folks.

Thanks in advance

Bernie

[Rustynuts]

You'll need diagnostics tools to force an eject, and even then sometimes it won't eject as the unit doesn't boot up enough to get into the settings. If those cases a replacement drive is the only way to be able to try a reload, but invariably that just ends up as another cd stuck in another drive.

[Berniebloke]

Thanks for the info. I don't have the diagnostic tools and from the info you have given me sounds like it wouldn't make any difference even if I did.

will have to live with the bolero for now and maybe time for a new one next year then.

Cheers

Bernie