Simon,
I can imagine,,,? Is there instructions anywhere for taking the
imac G-3's apart anywhere..?
Lyle
Simon Royal wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> --- 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
>
>
> >
>
>
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