Hello all! New member today posting with a question about my IMac G5 iSight machine, running OS 10.4.11, "Tiger". I purchased this machine used about a year ago and have been using it as-is until recently when I tried to create a CD. The drive made a lot of noise, sounding like it was off-balance - and the effort failed. OS issued a dialog to that effect and ejected the disk.
I have a USB external drive that I could plug in but where's the fun in that? Why not replace the internal DVD? So I went on line and looked at various videos. With their help I got as far as getting the display off the top of the motherboard (this is not the earliest or the latest version of the machine, apparently) and now I have a DVD drive that looks like it is mounted in a black plastic snap-in tray having two tabs or "fingers at the inboard end. These snap into the aluminum carriage below (toward the back).
Only thing is: The tabs don't want to release and I don't know for sure that this is the way to disassemble. I'm hoping someone here can advise. Thanks for your replies.
-CH-
I have a USB external drive that I could plug in but where's the fun in that? Why not replace the internal DVD? So I went on line and looked at various videos. With their help I got as far as getting the display off the top of the motherboard (this is not the earliest or the latest version of the machine, apparently) and now I have a DVD drive that looks like it is mounted in a black plastic snap-in tray having two tabs or "fingers at the inboard end. These snap into the aluminum carriage below (toward the back).
Only thing is: The tabs don't want to release and I don't know for sure that this is the way to disassemble. I'm hoping someone here can advise. Thanks for your replies.
-CH-