Re: opening a G3 iMac

2009-03-12 Thread ./aal
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:

Re: opening a G3 iMac

2009-03-11 Thread Stro
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

Re: opening a G3 iMac

2009-03-11 Thread ./aal
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:15 PM, 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

opening a G3 iMac

2009-03-01 Thread Lee Stroschine
Greetings, I teach at a small church run school and just acquired some G3 iMacs (500 mhz, 128mb, 20gb, cd-rw, OS 10.3.9). The pram batteries need replacing. How do I open the iMacs to get to the battery? Also how do I access the hard drive and will the hard drive from a beige G3 fit?

Re: opening a G3 iMac

2009-03-01 Thread Art
On Feb 28, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Lee Stroschine wrote: I teach at a small church run school and just acquired some G3 iMacs (500 mhz, 128mb, 20gb, cd-rw, OS 10.3.9). The pram batteries need replacing. How do I open the iMacs to get to the battery? Also how do I access the hard drive and will

Re: opening a G3 iMac

2009-03-01 Thread Cyrus
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