Introduzione
Replace your broken optical drive to keep those disks spinning.
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Remove the three T8 Torx screws securing the front bezel to the rear panel.
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Insert a plastic card up into the corner of the air vent slot at the top of the rear case.
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Push the card toward the top of the iMac to release the front bezel latch.
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Pull the front bezel away from the rear case.
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Repeat this process for the other side of the front bezel.
Using a strongish magnet will grab and release the latches.
Citazione da darkstar448:
Using a strongish magnet will grab and release the latches.
Are you sure it's safe to do this? How close is the hard drive, won't magnets interfere with it?
It's almost certainly fine. Modern hard drives are very resistant to magnetic fields.
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Peel back the aluminum EMI shield up off the lower three edges of the rear case.
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Remove the four recessed coarse-thread 7.5 mm T10 Torx screws securing the display to the rear case.
No problem taking those screws off, HUGE problem trying to put them back in. Reassembling this step is a lot more complicated. Those 4 screws are impossible to reinstall if you don't have a magnetized screwdriver, which I don't.
I used some 'chapstik' on my t10 driver and it held the screws long enough to insert them.
Citazione da javier:
No problem taking those screws off, HUGE problem trying to put them back in. Reassembling this step is a lot more complicated. Those 4 screws are impossible to reinstall if you don't have a magnetized screwdriver, which I don't.
Since I could not get a hold on a nice magnetized T10, I inverted the whole unit and worked upside down to avoid lost screws inside an iMac.
Citazione da javier:
Since I could not get a hold on a nice magnetized T10, I inverted the whole unit and worked upside down to avoid lost screws inside an iMac.
Great, now my problem is to find a new cable that connects the panel to LB.
I'm from Italy and nobody has got it .
Please help me
Thanks for all
Carlo
I found a group of wires not mentioned on the instructions along the underside of the display at the right. They were connected to something at the right bottom of the display near the white plastic piece. I am unable to raise the display more than a couple of inches at this side of it and am wondering what do do.
The group of wires on the right side of the display is the inverter. Seems like a few steps were omitted, so I'll try to fill in the gaps. Use the T10 to remove the right speaker. It's the big white plastic squarish thing on the bottom right side of the iMac. It pulls stright up and you can either disconnect it or just leave it hanging. This should release the inverter cable from hanging up the right side of the display (it did for me, even disconnecting the inverter didn't help as the cable was under the speaker, the inverter doesn't need to be disconnected but it might be helpful to disentangle things and it's an easy one to take apart). The other step missing is to remove the perforated tape at the top of the LCD from the LCD, otherwise you can't really remove it. I found a spudger helpful for this task.
I know it's a couple years since the OP posted, but hope this helps someone.
Cheers
Jeff Kamis
I've found that 'coating' the tip of the screwdriver with glue from a glue-stick will help to keep the screws from coming off of a non-magnetized driver.
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Remove the T10 Torx screw securing the optical drive flex cable mounting bracket to the logic board.
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Remove the flex cable mounting bracket.
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Disconnect the optical drive thermal sensor.
Alternatively unstick the sensor from the drive, and leave it connected to the cable.
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Insert the flat end of a spudger into the gap between the optical drive and its bracket until it contacts the chassis.
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Grab the spudger as close to the surface of the optical drive as you can, then depress the release tab with your thumb while pulling toward yourself.
I think the 10-year-old jab at "Apple’s ‘Engineers’” is pretty bad taste and unnecessary. Someone made a mistake. Nobody sat around at a board meeting drooling stupidly and saying “euyh we shudl just put stickbar in plastic make latch difficult to open euhh”. So I opt to remove the 15-year-old-kid level commentary from the beginning of this step to clean it up :)
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Remove the two T10 Torx screws from the side of the optical drive.
Removal of these screws can wait until the entire bracket assembly is out of the chassis. Remove the screws when you remove the bracket from the drive, step 23.
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Use the flat end of a spudger to press the bottom edge of the lower optical drive bracket release tab toward the lower edge of the iMac.
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Maneuver the optical drive out of the rear case, minding the two plastic pins molded into the rear case near the open end of the optical drive that can break off.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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Excellent information that is timely for me because I need to replace my hard disk. Do you recall the name of the hard disk you used to replace the original, just quickly?
