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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mar 1, 12:13 pm, Cyrus <[email protected]> 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 brother >> has an older one that we upgraded to have a DVD drive, so he could >> watch movies. It works great. (I'm pretty sure we got it on eBay? >> Possibly a pull from a newer G3 iMac that had a DVD drive) It's pretty >> easy to take them apart, at least to get to the hard drive and CD >> drive, but I would suggest looking over a complete take apart guide >> before starting in: >> Here is a dissasembly guide, the pictures and instructions are about >> 10 pages into it. Hope that helps! (sorry if it is a little >> confusing... you can just google imac G3 take apart and see what you >> can find-if it's not helpful to you.) >> > > Greetings again, > I used the guide to open the guide. I got the screws removed, but I > couldn't get the bottom to come off the front of the iMac. Is there a > trick to it? > > Thanks, > Lee > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
