I finally fixed my computer. Such a hassle though! I received the part this week but only screwed my courage to the sticking place - which is just under the Laughing Place - today. It was an all day affair, though most of the time I spent trying to figure out exactly what to do. Finally I appealed to my friend Mike who does this sort of thing a lot, and he found a nice link on apple's website to a video tutorial. Step-by-step. I don't know what I'd have done if we didn't have a second computer. I would have literally have had to go back to the drawing board. And I do mean literally.
I have a G4 Mirror Door Desktop, circa early 2003. Dual 1.25 Ghz. I replaced the power supply. I'm stating this so that those of you who need this help can follow my lead, as it was difficult to find this video, and perhaps a Google search will bring you here. If I can save one person in the world a headache, I'll be happy. Watch the "removal" and "installation" videos here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=26259
Anyway, it was a pain but I'm back in business. Firing up my computer for the first time in a few months was interesting. It was like a short-run time machine. I actually got a little melancholy thinking back to those halcyon days of March. My last mail received before the power supply blew was March 18, at 3:47 pm. It was like I'd stumbled across the Pompeii of my own personality. There it was, my life, frozen just as I had been living before the disaster. Only to be unearthed months later by a slightly more grizzled, sparsely bearded version of myself. If only I knew then... What? What would I tell myself? Probably not much. Probably just wave to myself and point at my pathetic beard and say, "Don't Bother!" And then tell myself the end of Spiderman 3 so I wouldn't waste my time seeing it again. (Spiderman wins) It actually is a little encouraging that I wouldn't really do much differently if I had the last few months to do over again. Oh there are a few snarky comments I probably wouldn't make again. I'd try not to break the port glass while washing it this time. What else? Oh! I would definately NOT eat a Grimaldi's, supposedly the best pizza in Brooklyn. It was not and insult to injury, caused a rather explosive situation that had me high-stepping to a seedy but welcome movie theater restroom ten minutes after our meal. That being said though, it was probably good preparation for India, where I'll be high-stepping to considerably poorer facilities.
Posted by ian at June 24, 2007 1:29 AM