Nope, and nope. There's four screws on the underside, then 6 or so screws on
the RF shield, then 4 on the HD.
Here's a fairly decent one, it starts on page 18:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/103447/iMac-G3-Disassembly-Guide
A couple of things:
Be careful with the tabs on front, I haven't found a good way to take it off
reliably without breaking these... Just be gentle, and maybe if you have
something to stick in and release the clips, that might help. If you do break
them though, it doesn't
Be careful not to let the screws from the RF shield (EMI shield in the guide)
fall down inside the computer! You won't see them again, and they can cause
shorts in the video circuitry. Use a magnetized screwdriver to prevent that
from happening.
-Elliott Price
Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services
hobbittech.com/quoit
On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Mike Styer wrote:
> Yeah, your probably right... Anyway, is it hard to swap the hard drive of an
> iMac G3 slot loader? And more importantly, is it dangerous?
>
> One mans trash is another mans treasure. In my case, this happens to be with
> old Macs :)
>
> On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Elliott Price <callmemrp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just a couple of things:
> It's probably not a good idea to sleep it before it's fully loaded, just wait
> a few seconds for everything to load, and then put it to sleep if you're not
> going to use it.
> Like others have said, that just happens with some HD's in those iMacs. My
> little brother had an iMac with this problem, and we just swapped out HD's
> and it worked fine. If you have any extra IDE HD's around, you can try one of
> those & see if the problem goes away.
>
>
> -Elliott Price
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