Eject button

[alpine_sc]

I want to remove the switch on an optical drive and wire in another one that will be external to drive itself. I can probably find one at radio shack but the problem is I have no clue about the naming of switches. So what kind of switch does an optical drive use? Normally open push button switches?

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Thats an optiplex dongle that provided continous power to the read and crystal array. If you want to add a second "power on/off switch" you need to route the 3 and 4th jumpers to the 1/2 position instead of the 0/1. This is because those jumpers provide uniplex operations and prevent any aditional interrupted power switches to be connected.


Just get a molex remote control switch and place it between the power connection of the PSU and the Optical drive...easier.

 

[alpine_sc]

Whoa. What kind of language are you speaking? Isn't optiplex a name of a line of Dell's laptops? Isn't a dongle like a security key or something? What is a read an crystal array? Optical drives have jumpers? What the heck is uniplex? It's not in the dictionary. If I have a remote control between the psu and optical drive then that would only control whether or not the optical drive gets power. It wouldn't eject the tray.

Anyway, I bought a N.O. (normally open) momentary push button switch from radioshack and used it on an old computer, and it works. I didn't even have to remove the other push button switch. But the computer doesn't have an operating system installed so I don't know if the drive can read disks. I have yet to try it on my useable computer.