Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-03 Thread johnwd5
I also had screws in the drive caddy that were just too big and preventing the caddy settling in right. My local friend helped out there too. I just installed 10.3 and will complete the rest today. I'm loathe to take it apart again to fix the Airport antenna cable but I know I won't be satisfied

Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-02 Thread johnwd5
It's a thin strip of coax. On Apr 2, 9:39 am, "./aal" wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:29 AM, johnwd5 wrote: > > > Anyone out there had any positive experience of repairing a broken > > antenna wire ? The split is about an inch away from the logic board. > > My confusion arose because the sell

Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-02 Thread ./aal
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:29 AM, johnwd5 wrote: > > Anyone out there had any positive experience of repairing a broken > antenna wire ? The split is about an inch away from the logic board. > My confusion arose because the seller had accidentally connected the > dummy ide port on the imac while pi

Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-02 Thread johnwd5
Anyone out there had any positive experience of repairing a broken antenna wire ? The split is about an inch away from the logic board. My confusion arose because the seller had accidentally connected the dummy ide port on the imac while pinching the airport cable, after I had started assembling i

Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-01 Thread johnwd5
Turned out to be a badly pinched airport cable that had snapped. I guess there's no way of repairing that, eh ? On Apr 1, 4:30 pm, "./aal" wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:22 PM, johnwd5 wrote: > > > Sorry > > > RED 3 is a cable and it attaches to the RED 2 port on the board. I > > have since

Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-01 Thread ./aal
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:22 PM, johnwd5 wrote: > > Sorry > > RED 3 is a cable and it attaches to the RED 2 port on the board. I > have since found there is another slim cable on the board that also > connects to RED 2. > > They appear to be some kind of ground wires. > I am still unsure do you m

Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-01 Thread johnwd5
Sorry RED 3 is a cable and it attaches to the RED 2 port on the board. I have since found there is another slim cable on the board that also connects to RED 2. They appear to be some kind of ground wires. On Apr 1, 4:12 pm, "./aal" wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:33 PM, johnwd5 wrote: >

Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-01 Thread ./aal
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:33 PM, johnwd5 wrote: > > http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4245/img5002j.jpg > > The link above will show, albeit quite blurry, that RED 1 and RED 2 > connect and RED 3 is a thin cable that attaches inside RED 2 on the > board. It looks like an IDE shaped port. > > Any he

Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-01 Thread johnwd5
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4245/img5002j.jpg The link above will show, albeit quite blurry, that RED 1 and RED 2 connect and RED 3 is a thin cable that attaches inside RED 2 on the board. It looks like an IDE shaped port. Any help is appreciated ! johnwd5 wrote: > Hello, > > I am in the

Re: iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-01 Thread ./aal
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:37 PM, johnwd5 wrote: > > Hello, > > I am in the middle of trying to put a new hard drive in when I've > opened the base and even though I was careful the slim cable that > seems to go into an IDE port on the logic board has come away. > > Obviously this is bad - is it r

iMac G4 700mhz/256mb ram hard drive and reinstalling issues

2009-04-01 Thread johnwd5
Hello, I am in the middle of trying to put a new hard drive in when I've opened the base and even though I was careful the slim cable that seems to go into an IDE port on the logic board has come away. Obviously this is bad - is it repairable ? It seems to me that the cable going into the ide se