TRYING TO FIX AN iBOOK CLAMSHELL

Hey guys, I know I said in my vintage mat collecting series that I wanted all my Macs to be found locally, but I found this foldable iBook on eBay for $45, so I couldn't pass it up. It is in great condition. Look but it has a little problem when I bought a charger and plugged it in it booted right up so I wiped the hard drive reinstalled the OS and when I was setting it up the whole computer froze and when I tried to restart it. it didn't boot to the desktop anymore, it went back to the screen with the flashing question mark and the finder logo so yeah that was a bad sign so I tried reinstalling the LS again but when I went to the page to select what drive should install the hard drive wasn't here, so this iBooks hard drive, which was about nineteen years old, finally died and you all probably know me as a guy who destroys technology, but I wanted this iBook model for a long time, so I'm not going to destroy it.

I'm going to try to fix it, so let's try to replace the hard drive on this computer as soon as possible. Observers of this vlogging channel remember what I did, a series where I tried to fix things on my MacBook and backup crazy views. For some reason where am I going to get the hard track to replace the dead width? I also bought this PowerBook g4 online for $15 and I'm going to destroy this one for a main channel video, so why not get it in parts for this iBook? It was $15 and I don't want to keep it well.

Great hinge and this PowerBook g4 also boots but it also boots to the blinking question mark logo screen but turns out it was just missing an OS so I installed an OS on and it boots fine now and this is how I do it , the hard drive was working, so let's take this hard drive and put it in this one, maybe take out the gigabyte of RAM and the airport card and put it in this one. one too and before removing your hard drive, we will give it one last boot. You can also see that his condition is really bad.

Look at all this paint that has been scraped off, but still runs and starts. The hard drive is kind of funny. noises, I hope this one doesn't die too and yes, again I have to hold the screen up or I will still fall. Final shutdown before it is destroyed. Good night, sweet prince, this hard drive will probably die too soon, but I'm too cheap. bought a new hard drive and just wanted a video, well let's get into our first time lapse to take this one apart. I bent the hard drive pins when I was removing that connector, hopefully when I put the new one in. connector, they'll just go bad, wow, okay, I took out the Airport RAM card and the hard drive with several bent pins, that home won't affect it now, if you have to do this part of the video, you're probably wondering what's going on.

It's very difficult to replace the Nibel

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hard drive, well it's very difficult to replace a hard drive in one of these because you actually have to literally take apart almost the entire computer just to get to the hard drive. You saw how easy it was on this. computer, it took about 10 minutes, well, as I fix it, it died in the iBook folding hard drive replacement, the difficulty is very difficult and the time required is two hours. Now I'm not going to follow the fix guide because I read words. Looking at images doesn't help me. I am going to follow a step by step video of the 8 bit guide.

An incredible youtuber. I downloaded the video, put it in Final Cut Pro and cut it. Court. each step, so if I need to see a step, I know exactly where the step starts and ends. Well, I think it's time to start. Two hours to fix it. The guide says we'll see if it really takes me two hours because I have. my iPad right here and a stopwatch, so yeah, let's put this on about doing a time lapse and see if this technology, the structured YouTuber, can fix something. I already read The Times and forgot to get coin help. the battery cover, you're okay, I'm more than halfway done, I removed the screen, how difficult I say, it wasn't that difficult, especially with the video, but I'm pretty sure reassembling will be more difficult, OK?

I have the difficult one. I came out and yeah I've had a few pins on this one too, well who cares? It took about 46 minutes, not bad, I just put the hard drive back in and I'm going to start putting this computer back together, okay, take a deep breath, that hard drive was alone too. like three point two gigabytes, this is 30 gigabytes, so it's a nice upgrade. I'm also going to put in the RAM and airport card after this is over. Oh, before I put the iBook back together, here's my system for raising the screws I just glued them to.

On this piece of paper, I then circle each group of screws with a pen and write a quote from the video to remember where they go. Yes, this worked pretty well for me. I don't lose any screws and they are all organized. yes, taking it apart took me about 46 minutes and reassembling it took me an hour in two minutes, so yes, fixing it was pretty accurate if you were talking about both disassembly and reassembly and with a little help from a guys video big ones, it was pretty easy, it took a lot of time, but it was still kind of easy.

I also put in the airport card and the punch card because there was only one slot for one RAM drive, so yeah, it was a 512 megabyte drive. RAM, by the way, I don't know what the total RAM is now because there is some RAM soldered on, but the question still remains: did I do my repair work? Did I upload anything else inside this iBook while

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to replace the hard drive? Let's find out. I must also say that the yo-yo charger is great. Well, I have an official copy of Mac OS 9 point 2 point 1. We will leave this disk and turn it on while we boot from it.

I heard the doorbell. That's good. A little happy. Mac. I think everything is going well so far, but the real question is whether we will be able to read the new hard drive properly, so to install the O's, we are going to go to utilities. The disk configuration will appear. Yes, there it is, there it is, as you can. Look, it recognizes that the new hard drive is not mounted, so let's initialize it and install Mac OS 9. 17 minutes. This should take a while. It's almost there. Oh, the installation is finished. First we turn off the computer.

Okay, and now. let's turn on the laptop again to see if it really works. Ok, I have the happy Mac and yes, it is starting up. I have the jellyfish. I think it's a jellyfish wallpaper. I think it's frozen, oh never mind, and this is where the last hard drive died. I was setting up the date froze and then every time I started it that's when I saw the no hard drive display error so yeah I hope it doesn't break here. Hey, the airport card I put in is working. See our Wi-Fi? Just because? Suddenly he does it. or whatever you want.

Oh, will it actually connect to our Wi-Fi? Connect to the Internet now. Internet Explorer. Okay, if you see at the bottom, it looks like we have a signal and I'm connected to my modern Wi-Fi network. Oh, I can't go. apple.com, let's try Google, no. For this computer, I might install a newer OS to see if I can get it to display some web pages later. Was the RAM I put in displayed? I think the RAM I put in and it worked. I'm not sure about this jargon, thank you all for watching this technical repair video.

I can't wait to take this iBook to a coffee shop and look like a hipster. Thank you all for watching, comment, like and subscribe and I'll see. you then goodbye