found drama

So to follow up on today’s earlier post, there was no reviving Malkovich. It did not boot up on its own after 24 hours of cooling off. So I thought/hoped that maybe if I re-seated the SATA drive connectors that we would at least get one final access on this drive. Wrong again. Got inside (with a little help) and unplugged/replugged but the same failure to boot was the result. So no success there. But I guess we could call it “good practice” for when I’ll replace the drive in a couple of days…

Interesting observations:

• the screws along the bottom of the iMac don’t come all the way out (so you can’t lose them)
• the screws holding the hard drive in place are not the ones you think they are (which is a relief b/c I don’t have an Allen wrench handy)
• yes, it is a good idea to pull the memory out first
• I don’t know what’s up with that “HD heat” sensor cable but it is a pain in the ass to pull out (and unnecessarily adds about 10 minutes to the procedure)

Now to rid myself of my “computer killing electro-magnetic field“…

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