iMac G4 Upgrade ( Snowball ) Part 1: Replacing the iMac hard drive

Visit MacUsersGuide.com Mac Help Desk to get answers for more macintosh troubleshooting questions. http://www.macusersguide.com/help-desk/. The thing that you are mostly likely to get the most benefit from replacing is possibly the most inaccessible part of an iMac. Today's video tip focuses on replacing an iMac G4's hard drive executed by Carl Berkeley from Mac Users Guide. Berkeley admits that getting at the hard drives in these types of iMacs is a bit complicated but doable. He shows you how to get it done with just a few simple steps.

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[maccollectorZ]

Is there a little opening that is showing part of the RAM? It looked like laptop RAM when you took the first cover off, but then when you opened the whole thing up, I saw desktop RAM. Does this computer take desktop RAM, and can you put in new RAM by just taking off the first cover, or do you have to open it completely?

[maccollectorZ]

Is it true that if you let a computer, such as an iMac G3, sit for a while, unplugged, that you can take the CRT out without having to discharge it? Two times I did that and nothing happened to me. Maybe I was lucky? Please answer, thanks.

[pd3331]

@timebandit71 PRAM battery went and i opend it up, i did not close it right so after 10 minutes it smoked and shutdown

[timebandit71]

@pd3331 lol how did you manage that??!!

[pd3331]

@timebandit71 Yes yours is great. Mine melted the processor 

[timebandit71]

@pd3331 well my half snowball works great......

[pd3331]

@timebandit71 I don't care what you call it but mine is broke

[timebandit71]

@pd3331 that looks like half a snow ball.....

[pd3331]

@timebandit71 Oh. i call it a g4

[timebandit71]

@pd3331 its half a snowball....