Computer fix ‘em up

I’ve been having a terrible time with my computer.  Several months ago when I went to boot up in Mac OS X, it wouldn’t work.  I was rather confused so I tried this and that but to no avail.  You can imagine my state of mind having something broken on my beautiful iMac.  The good news for the time being was that my Windows side was still working fine…mostly.  One big problem I had was that whenever my computer was shut down or turned off unexpectedly I could not boot up into anything for a period of time.  The time it took to “cool down” increased from around 15 minutes when this first started to 8 or more hours the last time it happened.

Of course we could not afford to take it to a computer shop and have them charge us hundreds of dollars to fix it, so I was a little down at the fact that my computer might remain busted for some time.  That is until I read I could do it myself.  I knew this was a classic case of hard drive failure, which was very odd because the Windows side seemed to work well.  It had trouble now and then, but I could run it for hours and hours with nary a problem.  After telling Rachel I could do it myself, I promptly went to Newegg and ordered a new hard drive.

*As a caveat, I do all my computer component shopping at Newegg.  They have great service and prices.*

My hard drive arrived yesterday and the surgery began.

Properly sedated.

Cheap suction cups from Wal-Mart.

Applying suction.

Taking off the glass. Yeah, I broke a couple peg thingys.

My guts!

The charming Nate McCoy holding up the LCD so I can replace the HD.

Welcome back OS X!

It was both wild AND scary.  I actually didn’t have the necessary TORX screwdrivers, but Nate happened to have them in his car so he stopped by after work and assisted.  For the most part, everything went very smoothly with the exception of me breaking off a couple pegs that keep the glass aligned on the monitor.  I still had 6 or 8 left to keep it in place and it stays on via magnets so it is fine.  Overall it was a resounding success.

After the hardware repair OS X installed flawlessly and I was able to also install the Windows 7 release client under Boot Camp.  Everything is running now as smooth as butter on a bald monkey.  Woot!

Casey out.

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