> On Nov 27, 2017, at 11:31, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bill, > > I just went through the steps in #1 below, on my older Mini’s 2009 and 2011 > it’s not ear this complicated,
Yeah... I'd done a replacement on a mac mini in the past, and it was painful. The 2014 makes the repair look more like a root canal. Still, sitting and waiting for the creeeeeeeping hard drive is like water dripping on my forehead. > in fact I’ve done all of them without using the U shaped tool to move the > motherboard…it’s just not easy…in all cases I remove the fan, and then remove > the drive below the fan…it’s really a bear to get out without moving > everything forward but I didn’t have to take everything out of the case as in > the instructions…possibly the 2014 Mini is different. The 2014 must be completely disassembled to get to the hard drive (i.e. the one part that has a chance of breaking in a normal lifetime). It's not made for maintenance. > The one mistake I made, the heat wrap around the old drive with the heat sync > cable that goes onto the motherboard I didn’t put back on the SSD, and that > made the fans run wide open so I had to take back out and wrap the SSD just > to add the connection for the fans… Well, I'm gonna try to follow the instructions really carefully and not botch anything. From experience, I'll for sure forget one thing, so I just hope it is not in the middle of the repair. Bill _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
