Lyle If you want a nerve wrecking experience try swapping plastics. I had a dead Orange iMac with great plastics and a working Blue iMac with smashed plastics.
I stripped all the plastics from both machines and put the good innards in the Orange plastics. Simon On 19 Dec 2008, at 13:25, Lyle Lathem wrote: > > I never could get the plastic case off mine. Luckily the battery > was on > the bottom under a shield. Lyle > > > > > > Simon Royal wrote: >> Peter >> >> I cannot see why this shouldn't work. It is a pretty straight forward >> procedure to swap optical drives. >> >> They are both slot drives. The Ruby according to MacTracker is an >> iMac >> DV, which came with either a 24x CD or a 4x DVD. I had the 500Mhz >> Snow >> version which came with a DVD drive and it worked fine for playing >> DVDs. >> >> All of the iMacs in this range have the same graphics card. >> >> Simon >> >> On 19 Dec 2008, at 10:54, Peter Mc Court wrote: >> >>> Greetings all, >>> >>> I have a Ruby iMac (G3, 400MHz, 36GB HD, CD drive, 256MB RAM, >>> OS9.2.1, Firmware 4.1.9, Airport card, model number M7706). >>> >>> Ruby has a 24XCDROM player. >>> >>> I also have a Tangerine iMac with a dead mobo, but with a functional >>> slot loading 4XDVD drive. >>> >>> My question: can I swap Ruby's ATA CD drive with the Tangerine's ATA >>> DVD? I'm concerned about Ruby's architecture - I cannot run Apple's >>> DVD player on her as I get the message that the graphics card is not >>> supported. And, I know that this is not a small job, so I'd like any >>> input before I embark on major surgery. >>> >>> Cheers and TIA, >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk >> --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 >> >> >>> > > > > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---