この修理ガイドは変更されています。最新の未承認バージョンに切り替えます。
はじめに
This guide will help you install a hard drive into your iMac G4.
必要な工具と部品
-
-
Using a Phillips #00 screw driver, remove the four 6.86 mm screws from the metal plate.
-
-
-
Release the tabs on each side of the module by simultaneously pushing each tab away from the RAM.
-
Remove the RAM module from the iMac.
-
-
-
Open the base by carefully pulling straight off, do not rotate the cover.
You can skip steps 7-9; there is no need to disconnect any internal wiring or RAM. Crack open the base a couple of inches (it doesn't really rotate, just pull it out), and the PRAM battery will be right under your nose. It's no problem to pop it out with your fingers and put the new one in. Just make sure that you note the positive and negative terminals on the old one, and put the new one in the same way.
No one mentioned the need for thermal paste in the reassembly...
Thermal paste? Where would you put that? As I understand it there's no need for that anywhere other than the CPU/Heatsync
There's a post (or block really) that connects the cpu heatsink to the upper part of the metal shell that is just to the right (facing the imac) of the drive door. Upon reassembly it's best to clean the matching surfaces and reapply thermal paste to that upper post.
Joe Pena -
what's with the apparent loose black wire visible in step 6 & 7 ?? same as the loose wire just sitting there in step 3 ( which was like that on mine, just loose.....? )
I hear that wire is bluetooth hook up.. my model has the other side but my board doesn't have the hook up... go fig :(
sean -
-
-
-
-
Squeeze the small black tab and wiggle gently to remove the colored power cable.
-
-
-
Grab both sides of the blue connector and firmly pull to remove it from the mother board.
It's a bit vague. That is, it explains where and how the memory module fits, but most importantly it does not. What type of DIMM memory it has to be and its speed as well as the process of not touching hands with the gold connectors of the memory module
-
-
-
Using a Torx #9 screw driver, remove the two 8.77mm screws holding the drive's shield onto your iMac G4.
-
Remove the drive shield from your iMac.
-
-
-
Slide the optical drive out from the metal support mounted to hard drive.
I replaced the optical drive and hard drive (with an SSD) at the same time. When I put it all back together the new hard drive did not work. Turns out you need to set the pins on the optical drive to “SL” (which horribly stands for slave) from the default MA (master) to get this to work.
-
-
-
Using a Torx #10 screw driver, remove the four 6.03mm screws mounting the hard drive to the assembly.
-
-
-
Unplug the power connection from the Hard Drive by pinching the white plastic connector and wiggling gently.
I replaced the stock hard drive with an SSD. After the install the Mac didn’t recognize the new SSD. After some troubleshooting it seems that the drive was formatted in such a way that the Mac restore CDs didn’t know what do do with it. I connected in target mode via firewire to another Mac running OS 9 which immediately mounted the new SSD and ran disc setup. Formatted the new drive as Mac OS extended and then tried to run the install CDs again which worked flawlessly. If able, I would recommend formatting the drive ahead of time to save time and panic.
-
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
37 の人々がこのガイドを完成させました。
チーム
Cal Poly, Team 5-32, Amido Fall 2011 Cal Poly, Team 5-32, Amido Fall 2011人のメンバー
CPSU-AMIDO-F11S5G32
4 メンバー
8のガイドは作成済み
2 件のコメント
This guide was very easy to follow and to the point. Thank you so very much for putting your time in creating it, you helped me! :-)
What kind of hard drive would you need to get?
