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<blockquote data-quote="reck16" data-source="post: 471574" data-attributes="member: 36929"><p>I'm going to try and keep it plain and simple with the most details I could possibly include. Thank you for your time in advance to whoever's going to read this.</p><p></p><p>Sitting here I have an iBook G4, 12-inch, 1.33 ghz processor, 40gb hd, 512 ram + airport.</p><p></p><p>I bought this laptop used, to find that when I try to reformat the pc, my discs just get spit out. Now I'm no expert with macs (not at all, never had opened one up, and even bother with them) but I had figured my optical drive had failed or just needed some major cleaning. I skipped the cleaning idea, and went out and bought a used optical drive off a site. The guy's logic board had failed, so he was selling a few individual parts that he felt he could re-sell. (I'm going to go a little bit further into the course of actions, by adding that the optical drive I had in my laptop has the model number CW-8124-C, I later found out that the one I was installing was a CW-8123-C)</p><p></p><p>Anyways let's go back to before. So I have this ifixit guide (<a href="http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/iBook-G4-12-Inch/Optical-Drive/83/15/" target="_blank">http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/iBook-G4-12-Inch/Optical-Drive/83/15/</a>) that one to be exact. I start off disambleming the ibook, no problems, being as it's the first time I did this I did scratch it a little bit here and there while removing the lower case, but it's ok. I finally get to my optical drive, where I realize the model number differences that I mentioned earlier. What I also noticed was that MY optical drive was the 2005 model, and not the 2004. Whatever, in need of a miracle, I said screw it, they should be compatible. The other problem I then ran into was with the ribbons. </p><p></p><p>My optical drive had a white ribbon, that connected to the logic board, and needed a clamp or whatever to lock it in place. It also had this funny looking chip-like thing just "glued" on the corner of it like you guys will see in the pictures that I will add after I'm done typing all this. This chip like thing connected to the logic board right on the bottom of where the keyboard connects. A little red and black cable. Alright back to my ribbon problem, the ribbon from the one I bought was orange, and at this point the ifixit guide just confused me, and the rest seemed pretty logical to me seeing as I've had experiences with PCs. (I know mac is a TOTAL other thing, yes, I realised lol). Anyhow, I analysed both of the optical drives I now had, and realised that both ribbons connected to the optical drive obviously. So on the "new" drive I had bought, I unplugged the orange ribbon, and put in the white one that I had unplugged from the old one (old as in the one that was "broken" from the start, even though I found out that it was a more modern version). I switch up the ribbons, but I notice I still have that little chip like thing just chilling on my old optical drive, I figure it serves a purpose and unglue it from the drive and put it on the one I was then installing. I plug in that red and black cabled connector, put in the white ribbon, clamp it up, start doing the steps backwards. I miss a few screws here and there as I notice I have a few extra left (I've heard this isn't really a big problem). I make sure their are no screws inside on the logic board, because I wouldn't need that happening.</p><p></p><p>I boot up the laptop. Wait for it guys..</p><p></p><p>The first boot I see if the laptop turns on, it does. Good. First difference I notice though is the little startup sound doesn't play. Perplexed, once I get to the login screen, I press the ovlume buttons, and I hear the noise they make when pressed. so I conclude that I didn't mess up with replugging the sound plug, since those buttons still make their noise. Something else is up.</p><p></p><p>All of a sudden though, the laptop goes into sleep mode, I take it out, nd the backlight is off (to what I just understood not to long ago from browsing the forum). I can barely see the login screen from an angle, and fiddling with the screen position. But before I get a good glimpse, it falls back into sleep mode. What's going on I say. I shut down by holding down the start button (I know it's not good for the laptop, but I had no choice). I put in an install disc and hold down c. I don't even hear the optical drive but I still know it's doing something. The disc stays in there longer than before when it would spit it out, and evidently it spits it out, but with a catch. The laptop shuts down. This happens a few times. And now the laptop just boots up, the screen is good, the loading part btw is a lot slower than before I messed with the laptop. Like it used to be a lot faster now the loading bar takes more time. Then I get to the login screen, and then it falls into sleep mode, backlight problems, etc, etc. I tried doing the firewire thing with another ibook of one of my buds, and the laptop reads the INSTALL DISC, but doesn't load it. (Oh yeah and I found out about this firewire stuff after I tampered with the laptop). </p><p></p><p>I presently have the laptop opened up, and will keep it like that until I get a response from my post.</p><p></p><p>Thank you guys for your time, I really appreciate it. I need to fix this baby, sell her, to pay off some big cell phone bills.</p><p></p><p>Here are a few pictures, for some extra details you guys might need.</p><p></p><p>[IMAGE TOO BIG AND BAD QUALITY TOMORROW WILL HAVE]</p><p></p><p>Alright so in my second attempt to opening this is up, which is the position I'm in right now. I shook the laptop lightly to make sure no screws where there and this came out? :S That was somewhere and I have no idea from where it came out of. </p><p></p><p>[IMAGE TOO BIG AND BAD QUALITY TOMORROW WILL HAVE]</p><p></p><p>This is that chip thingy I was talking to you guys about. I'll post pics from my actual digital camera and in the morning tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>[IMAGE TOO BIG AND BAD QUALITY TOMORROW WILL HAVE]</p><p></p><p>And thats the little red and black cable that it connects with to the logic board. I'll get once more a better pic tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>Oh yeah btw that chip thingy is ON the optical drive. In the corner as you guys can see.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks again for reading man.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="reck16, post: 471574, member: 36929"] I'm going to try and keep it plain and simple with the most details I could possibly include. Thank you for your time in advance to whoever's going to read this. Sitting here I have an iBook G4, 12-inch, 1.33 ghz processor, 40gb hd, 512 ram + airport. I bought this laptop used, to find that when I try to reformat the pc, my discs just get spit out. Now I'm no expert with macs (not at all, never had opened one up, and even bother with them) but I had figured my optical drive had failed or just needed some major cleaning. I skipped the cleaning idea, and went out and bought a used optical drive off a site. The guy's logic board had failed, so he was selling a few individual parts that he felt he could re-sell. (I'm going to go a little bit further into the course of actions, by adding that the optical drive I had in my laptop has the model number CW-8124-C, I later found out that the one I was installing was a CW-8123-C) Anyways let's go back to before. So I have this ifixit guide ([url]http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/iBook-G4-12-Inch/Optical-Drive/83/15/[/url]) that one to be exact. I start off disambleming the ibook, no problems, being as it's the first time I did this I did scratch it a little bit here and there while removing the lower case, but it's ok. I finally get to my optical drive, where I realize the model number differences that I mentioned earlier. What I also noticed was that MY optical drive was the 2005 model, and not the 2004. Whatever, in need of a miracle, I said screw it, they should be compatible. The other problem I then ran into was with the ribbons. My optical drive had a white ribbon, that connected to the logic board, and needed a clamp or whatever to lock it in place. It also had this funny looking chip-like thing just "glued" on the corner of it like you guys will see in the pictures that I will add after I'm done typing all this. This chip like thing connected to the logic board right on the bottom of where the keyboard connects. A little red and black cable. Alright back to my ribbon problem, the ribbon from the one I bought was orange, and at this point the ifixit guide just confused me, and the rest seemed pretty logical to me seeing as I've had experiences with PCs. (I know mac is a TOTAL other thing, yes, I realised lol). Anyhow, I analysed both of the optical drives I now had, and realised that both ribbons connected to the optical drive obviously. So on the "new" drive I had bought, I unplugged the orange ribbon, and put in the white one that I had unplugged from the old one (old as in the one that was "broken" from the start, even though I found out that it was a more modern version). I switch up the ribbons, but I notice I still have that little chip like thing just chilling on my old optical drive, I figure it serves a purpose and unglue it from the drive and put it on the one I was then installing. I plug in that red and black cabled connector, put in the white ribbon, clamp it up, start doing the steps backwards. I miss a few screws here and there as I notice I have a few extra left (I've heard this isn't really a big problem). I make sure their are no screws inside on the logic board, because I wouldn't need that happening. I boot up the laptop. Wait for it guys.. The first boot I see if the laptop turns on, it does. Good. First difference I notice though is the little startup sound doesn't play. Perplexed, once I get to the login screen, I press the ovlume buttons, and I hear the noise they make when pressed. so I conclude that I didn't mess up with replugging the sound plug, since those buttons still make their noise. Something else is up. All of a sudden though, the laptop goes into sleep mode, I take it out, nd the backlight is off (to what I just understood not to long ago from browsing the forum). I can barely see the login screen from an angle, and fiddling with the screen position. But before I get a good glimpse, it falls back into sleep mode. What's going on I say. I shut down by holding down the start button (I know it's not good for the laptop, but I had no choice). I put in an install disc and hold down c. I don't even hear the optical drive but I still know it's doing something. The disc stays in there longer than before when it would spit it out, and evidently it spits it out, but with a catch. The laptop shuts down. This happens a few times. And now the laptop just boots up, the screen is good, the loading part btw is a lot slower than before I messed with the laptop. Like it used to be a lot faster now the loading bar takes more time. Then I get to the login screen, and then it falls into sleep mode, backlight problems, etc, etc. I tried doing the firewire thing with another ibook of one of my buds, and the laptop reads the INSTALL DISC, but doesn't load it. (Oh yeah and I found out about this firewire stuff after I tampered with the laptop). I presently have the laptop opened up, and will keep it like that until I get a response from my post. Thank you guys for your time, I really appreciate it. I need to fix this baby, sell her, to pay off some big cell phone bills. Here are a few pictures, for some extra details you guys might need. [IMAGE TOO BIG AND BAD QUALITY TOMORROW WILL HAVE] Alright so in my second attempt to opening this is up, which is the position I'm in right now. I shook the laptop lightly to make sure no screws where there and this came out? :S That was somewhere and I have no idea from where it came out of. [IMAGE TOO BIG AND BAD QUALITY TOMORROW WILL HAVE] This is that chip thingy I was talking to you guys about. I'll post pics from my actual digital camera and in the morning tomorrow. [IMAGE TOO BIG AND BAD QUALITY TOMORROW WILL HAVE] And thats the little red and black cable that it connects with to the logic board. I'll get once more a better pic tomorrow. Oh yeah btw that chip thingy is ON the optical drive. In the corner as you guys can see. Thanks again for reading man. [/QUOTE]
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