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my lovely g4 iBook repair
Author: astroid on September 26 2007 Viewed 2284 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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astroid
the worst, most soul crushing deception of the whole thing was looking at the HD procedure for the titanium g4 mercury that i yanked the drive from. literally 3 steps, remove battery, open case, remove drive. i can't believe they'd make the most likely repair on the iBook such an ordeal. i had heard stories that repair places don't want to work on them, but wow.
anyway, the real moral is how awesome ifixit.com is. they made every part of this impossible task possible. you just need the right screwdrivers, like one of those byzantine torx-8 dealies that looks like a trepanation spike.
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monkvolcano
and balls of steel.. which u have proven to posess.. ur my hero.
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astroid
the logic board repair for my computer is totally incomprehensible. at one point you have to take a hairdryer and soften the paste holding the heatsink on.
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Roshi
which is why I have never done it, I've just done the shimsham (which has stopped working)
someone resoldered the GPU back on with a votive candle somehow, which probably takes major cojones
09/27/07
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em978
dude you should of got a dell!
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oerfil
LOL dude! 
09/27/07
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em978
I was trying to figure out how to add "bro don't taser me!" but I'm not that slick.
09/27/07
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zfigz
hoorah!
glad you fixed it astroid.
p.s. it's a pity apple makes it so tough to do diy repair.
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EsromCole
I sold my last laptop rather than repair it. You have resolve my friend.
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evilai
well done dude! i replaced a hard drive on my powerbook using the apple hardware repair guide which isn't nearly as good as the ifixit one.
was only left with 2 stay screws, which was a result as far as i was concerned until i realised that my battery was no longer charging and my dvd player wasn't working anymore. balls!
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astroid
heh
i think all the screws i left out were just case things. it actually looked like someone had gone in there before to do an hd switch-there were already some screws missing and scratch marks of pure rage.
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