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Gateway SX2802-07 DVD Eject Button

Posted on January 16, 2015February 23, 2015 by William Brown
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What we’ve got here (is failure to communicate! sorry) … is the uncooperative DVD (optical drive) button on a Gateway SX2802-07, which can be easily fixed.

This unit does not want to eject a DVD and it has nothing to do with the functionality of the drive itself, it has to do with the way the button Eject button on the chassis is made. This is what the inside of the front panel looks like, on the portion which is of concern to us:

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What I did was take the button out (carefully), take similar plastic from a VHS tape housing and glue a small flat piece to the angled end of the button. Then used nail clippers to trim it down to size and a jewelers file to shape and smooth it, to wind up with an 8th inch extension of the button end, so it looks like this:

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If you try this repair, be very careful not to snap off any tabs inside the panel and not to lose the springs that make the button stay up.

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