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my lovely g4 iBook repair
Author: astroid on September 26 2007 Viewed 2117 times. 21 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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today was a bit trying. as if my life weren't currently stressful enough, my HD in my iBook g4 all the sudden starts making beautiful noises and the screen locks up-then won't start. just perfect.
so i think, no prob, it's just the hard drive. i'll be in and out in 4 steps max. I've replaced the frigging logic board in another laptop after all. i go to the illustrious ifixt.com to see the damage
well, it's bad
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that's right, 17 steps.
1st step isn't so bad, just the battery
but then
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almost reduces me to tears, i can't get the little thingy to unlock, and finally break it off the keyboard, before realizing that it's just a stupid piece of plastic and spudgering under the rim of the keyboard. by this time i'm 30 minutes into it and have found my tools.
so a few steps later, we get to this atrocity:
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in which you basically have to commit several leaps of faith as you jab a small metal utensil into the case trying to pry it free listening for 'clicks' which may actually be permanent breaking of things, for all you know.
fine fine.
then you get here:
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where you have to pull this goo covered thing off of the logic board
so that's all ok
until
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where you have to try VERY HARD not to do permanent damage to the sockets for your speaker and trackpad. it's tough, because you basically have to jab it outta there with something sharp.
but that's fine.
then you get to remove 15 screws
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lol
and then more flipping the motherfucker over
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and tearing random things off
so by this point, i've managed to drop about 12 of the 35 or so screws under the couch, and have only bent a few of the pins for the new old hd.
NOW it comes time to try to put the whole pile of shit back together.
the 15 screw sequence, while simplified by dropping about half, is still akin to making an origami bust of chairman mao, only to be told by the party that the portrait doesn't 'have enough sense of steely resolve for the future'.
the part with the fucking trackpad and the speaker requires nothing less than a levitation/zen asking of the part to return to its natural state. i still don't know what happened or if it's actually where it's supposed to be.
i was astounded that the computer was actually way harder to put back together than it was to take apart. it was so hard to take apart that i almost went to the local 7/11 for a nice bender/dumpster nap
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09/26/07
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yghartsyrt
wow. wtf. those apple people now how to make diy repair a nightmare.
really… that's quite a lot. reminds me, that i always plan on replacing the fans on my g5. will be quite a similar experience i guess
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yghartsyrt
plus there needs to be a site foe apple dekstop computers aswell. stoopid ifixit only covers laptops 
09/26/07
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tylth
you wrote that so funny i actually had to laugh out loud
09/26/07
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astroid
yeah its a lot
too much:
im still crying
i think the desktop should be a bit easier actually, at least less stuff threaded through other stuff
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monkvolcano
i'm sending you my ibook to fix the trackpad. you've got about 3 days til it gets there to get all the crying out of ur system.
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yghartsyrt
the g5 at least the revision i have is a pita to take apart. even after 4 years i haven't figured out where the screws reside that take of that bulky box from the logicboard-part with the cpu. because apple did a decent job in hiding them.
stoopiod geniuses
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Fredo
ugh, what a nightmare. Sorry man, but impressive that you got through it!
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Psyingo
i dont understand why companies make shit very un-user repair friendly, although i guess they wanna make money on repairs. but still, thers a good hefty chunk of the market that would NEVER EVEN THINK of trying it themselves.
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adcBicycle
This is why you should have placed your mac in the garbage and gone out to buy a PC.
I replaced the screen on my ipod and was blown away with how easy it was, one tool screw driver was all I needed... and everything was elecrically connected inside with these brilliant little snap connectors.
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jdg
i have never repaired an ibook.. i had no idea! LOL.
good job dood.. im so proud of you.. now never msg me again.
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Roshi
Ack!
That looks scarey
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jonbro
Astroid said: "went to the local 7/11 for a nice bender/dumpster nap"
LOLED.
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mechp
wow, I'm impressed!
btw, if you ever need a good spudging mr. bruzniak, you know where to find me.
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hecanjog
lolcano said: "making an origami bust of chairman mao, only to be told by the party that the portrait doesn't 'have enough sense of steely resolve for the future'."
You're a witty dude Mr Troid. Congrats on getting through the repair of death!
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mixedtape
the part with the fucking trackpad and the speaker requires nothing less than a levitation/zen asking of the part to return to its natural state. i still don't know what happened or if it's actually where it's supposed to be.
OMFLOL
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