cheap putty knife will do it. watchmaker's knife is a lot better, but harder to find and more expensive. the cover just forms a very tight seal that is compression fit. you just work it loose slowly and try not to mess it up too badly. if you have strong fingernails you can start working it open with them. then it is held in by clips built in the cover.
once you work the cover off, you have to get to the motherboard, which is under a chassis assembly. 4 screws hold the chassis to the bottom plate where the motherboard is. they are in the corner and not entirely obvious, but once you find them, it becomes a simple matter of a small phillips screwdriver to get those two pieces apart. the airport card needs to be removed from its mount (no tools, just clipped in) and there is one very thin wire by the back of the machine that connects the motherboard with the top chassis. i took a small pair of needle nosed pliers and just gently worked the wire off the mother board. at this point you just separate the top chassis from the bottom plate/motherboard. the ram is right on the motherboard and pretty much easy to unclip and clip back in. it's a pretty easy job, but you need to pay attention, not break plastic bits and not rip wires out of the end. i messed up putting the cover back on the chassis/bottom plate so it isn't a neat fit anymore, but as everything including the disc drive is working, i don't want to unwire everything again and put it together right. personally, i'd rather have had someone else do the work for me, but if i can't get it done while i wait at reasonable cost, i will do the work myself even though i am not handy. if someone would have put it in for me for 20 bucks while i wait, though, it's a no brainer to me to have someone who actually knows what they are doing take care of it. but i'm not going to leave it for a week and pay 3 figures to have it done, especially as i am now set up to be doing EVERYTHING on this machine now On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > Speaking of mini computers, a friend at work is into these.... > > http://fit-pc2.com/ > > > > On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:32 -0700, "Alex Chamberlain" < > apchamberl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Gary Hurst<jabbahur...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > URL: < > http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090801/2b35ab87/attachment.jpe > > > > > > So was taking the Mini apart and putting it back together as tricky an > > operation as it's rumored to be, or was it a cakewalk compared to > > (say) a W124 power seat switch? > > > > What kind of pry tool did you use to get the case apart---putty knife, > > catspaw, etc.? > > > > I just ordered a new 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo Mini, and 4 gigs of RAM and a > > better hard drive to put in it (not going to pay the $200+ premium to > > Apple to upgrade it for me!) so I am intensely interested... > > > > Alex > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090801/344e630e/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
