On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Po-en Tsai <poen.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > make sure the headfone jacks and cd drive are not stopping it from > opening. here is a guide you should read. > http://www.scribd.com/doc/103447/iMac-G3-Disassembly-Guide > > Po-en > > On 3/12/09, Stro <lstro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mar 1, 12:13 pm, Cyrus <callmemrp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Yes the G3 iMacs used IDE HDs. I don't think they started using SATA >>> until the G5's or Intel iMacs, so you should be OK. (All IDE HD's are >>> interchangeable, for the most part) >>> Also it should be easy to upgrade to a DVD drive, my younger brother >>> has an older one that we upgraded to have a DVD drive, so he could >>> watch movies. It works great. (I'm pretty sure we got it on eBay? >>> Possibly a pull from a newer G3 iMac that had a DVD drive) It's pretty >>> easy to take them apart, at least to get to the hard drive and CD >>> drive, but I would suggest looking over a complete take apart guide >>> before starting in: >>> Here is a dissasembly guide, the pictures and instructions are about >>> 10 pages into it. Hope that helps! (sorry if it is a little >>> confusing... you can just google imac G3 take apart and see what you >>> can find-if it's not helpful to you.) >>> >> >> Greetings again, >> I used the guide to open the guide. I got the screws removed, but I >> couldn't get the bottom to come off the front of the iMac. Is there a >> trick to it? >> >> Thanks, >> Lee >> > >>
well well, my Bondi(tray loader) does not disassemble like that guide shows the slot loaders had a pretty extensive redesign on the plastics it seems. fortunately I did not need it for my system but it is good to know how different it is, I hope the OP has his system sorted -- I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc) AND I RUN LINUX!!! Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has their favorite, but we all get the same smile regardless of which we choose to scoop. Stephen King - "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to t... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
