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Maintenance/Guidance/Precaution/Repair  this page or part of it has yet to be translated. Thank you for your patience What you need to know beforehand : Computer's topology (attempt of explanation) and what's inside my tool pouch. Legend: Easy reparation which does n't need specific tools and no particular sensibility. Reparation or operation which needs specific tools (little screwdriver etc.) and request a little delicacy. Reparation or operation which needs iron pen and request more delicacy. Desktop Macs iMac G3 Tray-loading iMac Cleaning & updating a tray-loading iMac (adding RAM, removing the hard disk, discovering the internal battery, cleaning the fans, ...) (18 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable iMac G3 Slot-in Replacing a iMac slot-loading hard disk (or CD drive) and, eventually, the internal battery and RAM boards : RTC      adsl/cable Powermac G3 Powermac G3 Beiges Replacement of the hard disk on a grey G3 desktop : RTC       adsl/cable Powermac G3 Blue and White Replacing the CD drive by a burner in a Blue & White G3 : RTC       adsl/cable Without silent-block, here is the method for lowering the noise level of a Blue an White G3 (17 october 2004) : RTC       adsl/cable Powermac G4 Replacing an desktop G4 internal fan by a noiseless one (Enermax UC-12FAB model) : RTC       adsl/cable Two opticals drives in a G4 "full" Installing a SuperDrive in a G4 Mirorred Door RTC       adsl/cable Cleaning an ATI Rage128Pro fan (G4 AGP origin graphic board) RTC       adsl/cable Mac mini Changing the internal hard disk of a Mac Mini : RTC       adsl/cable Laptop macs MacBook Pro Changing the internal hard disk of macbook pro 17 inches (18 august 2008) adsl/cable Clamshell ibook palourde Replacing a clamshell ibook's internal hard disk (25 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Repair the connector of the ibook clamshell's power supply 2, they are several models :-( (08 october 2004) : RTC       adsl/cable Repair the connector of the ibook clamshell's power supply. (07 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Reparation of an iBook clamshell Firewire port (replacing the controller) : RTC       adsl/cable   ibook dual USB Replacement of the hard disk from an ibook dual usb G4 800 MHz + mike problem (18 february 2005) RTC       adsl/cable Quick cleaning of an iBook keyboard (17 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Replacement of the hard disk from an ibook dual usb 500 MHz (3 juni 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Reattaching a key to an ibook's keyboard (also for powerbooks) RTC       adsl/cable   Powerbook G3 How to fix the powersource's connector of a Powerbook G3 (Kanga), by soldering. RTC       adsl/cable Repairing the electric cable which comes from the black coloured electric transformer of a Pismo (G3 powerbook... same for the Lombard model) RTC       adsl/cable One combo in a pismo (juni 2003) RTC       adsl/cable 900 MHz card in a powerbook pismo (mai 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Apple downside up… pismo (juni 2004) RTC       adsl/cable A 8x Superdrive +/-R slot-in in a Pismo (december 2004) RTC       adsl/cable A DVD burner 8x in a pismo (april 2005) RTC       adsl/cable   Titanium Cleaning the combo drive (DVD reader + CD burner) of G4 Powerbook Titanium (21 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Welding of the internal power connector of a Titanium DVI Powerbook : RTC       adsl/cable  Aluminium Remplacing an 15'' aluminium powerbook keyboard : RTC       adsl/cable  Peripheral Printers Inkjet Printers Cleaning an Epson Stylus 740 printing head : RTC       adsl/cable Cleaning Epson 740 printing heads : another method RTC       adsl/cable Laser Printers "ROS MOTOR" problems on a 8500 LaserWriter (19 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Disques durs Inside a LaCie PocketDrive... Here, no problem: just to undertsand how it is built :-) RTC       adsl/cable Installing a 3.5'' IDE disk in a USB2/Firewire external case adsl/câble Fixating a 2.5" hard disk on a 3.5" support RTC       adsl/cable Inserting a 2.5'' hard drive into a junior titanium case (26 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable iPod Repairing an out of use Ipod 5 gigas. RTC       adsl/cable Repairing an second generation iPod's audio jack connector (02 november 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Burneurs Cleaning an external SCSI burner (26 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Keyboards Disassemble a Apple Pro (transparent) keyboard to clean it (7 november 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Saving an Apple USB keyboard RTC       adsl/cable Problems of adb connector of an Apple Extended Keyboard II : RTC       adsl/cable Mouse Dismounting and cleaning an Apple USB Mouse : RTC       adsl/cable Reparation of an Apple pro mouse. (27 october 2004) : RTC       adsl/cable Opening an Apple pro mouse [2]: the "Kurt" way (27 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Others Flashing a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI PC graphic board to be recognised by a Mac : RTC       adsl/cable This is a silent-block RTC       adsl/cable Cleaning an ATI Rage128Pro fan (G4 AGP origin graphic board) : RTC      adsl/cable Building a RJ-45 Ethernet cable of a specific length (21 october 2004) RTC       adsl/cable Un minibook :-) "Software" A little piece of CUPS... ... or how to connect an Apple LaserWriter 8500 under X.2.6 (and most probably previous releases)... and to gain access to to its differents print options [This tutorial can also be helpfull with other laserwriter printer and for some inkjet ones]: RTC       adsl/cable Keyboard's keys mapping under OS 9 and OS X My aim is to be able to type a point "." without involving the shift key: I more often type a point than a semicolon. Solution Problems when opening files on Mac: A file cannot be opened... or it launches SimpleText... Solution