Use a coin to turn the battery locking screw 90 degrees to the right. Lift the battery out of the computer. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s723 Remove the four Phillips screws from the memory door. Slide the memory door away from the memory compartment. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s726 Remove the long black Phillips screw next to the memory card. Remove the small EMI finger beneath the black screw. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s727 Flip down the door on the right side of the battery compartment. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s728 Use a spudger to disconnect the Airport antenna from the card. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s729 Grasp the plastic tab and pull the card out all the way. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s730 On the keyboard, remove the F1, F2, F11, and F12 keys. This is scary - take a deep breath before continuing. Place your index finger under the upper left corner of the key and lift up until you hear a click. Then, transfer your finger to the left edge of the key and lift up to pull the key off. You're freeing the two tabs on the left of the key from the two small holes in the plastic scissors mechanism. When replacing the keys in the keyboard, place the key directly over the slot where it will go and press down until you hear the key click into place. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s731 Use your fingernail or a small flathead screwdriver to peel up the gray stickers covering each of the screws. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s732 Remove the two short Phillips screws. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s733 Lift the keyboard by the 'esc' and 'eject' keys and gently lift up until the keyboard is vertical. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s734 Grasp the keyboard connector ribbon near the connector and disconnect it from the logic board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s735 Remove the three small Phillips screws from within the battery compartment. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s736 Turn the computer 90 degrees clockwise and remove the two medium-length Phillips screws from the casing. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s737 Turn the computer 90 degrees clockwise again, and remove only the bottom screw on either side of the hinge. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s738 Turn the computer 90 degrees clockwise just one more time, and remove the two Phillips screws on the exterior wall of the battery compartment. Remember these two screws are longer and have shoulders. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s739 Turn the computer over and open it up. Remove the following 14 screws: Six 2.5 mm Phillips on either side of the keyboard area. Five 4.5 mm Phillips on the left half of the keyboard area. One 7 mm hex in the upper left corner of the upper case (a T6 Torx driver will do the job nicely). One 15 mm Phillips in the upper middle of the keyboard area. One 16.5 mm hex in the upper right of the upper case (again, a T6 Torx driver will work well). /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s740 Peel up the two pieces of foil tape on the left side of the keyboard area. The connectors at the ends of the cables are attached very firmly to the sockets on the logic board. Pulling directly on the cable will either separate the cable from its connector or the socket from the logic board. Carefully disconnect the microphone and power cables from the logic board. Using your fingernails or a dental pick, carefully pry the connectors from their sockets. Make sure you're pulling only on the connector and not on the socket. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s741 Use the orange plastic loop to disconnect the trackpad cable. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s742 Starting at one of the upper corners near the screen, work around the frame, separating the upper case from the lower case. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s743 Lift the upper case off the computer. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s744 Remove the single Phillips screw from the reed switch board on the right side of the computer. Deroute the cable connecting the reed switch board to the DC-to-DC board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s746 Disconnect the reed switch cable from the DC-to-DC board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s747 Remove the two Phillips screws from the hard drive bracket. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s753 Use the orange plastic loop to disconnect the hard drive cable from the logic board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s754 Use the orange cable to pull the hard drive up, then pull it and the hard drive bracket out of the computer. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s755 Remove the two Phillips screws from the corners of the modem. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s759 Pry the modem up from the trackpad side. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s760 Disconnect the modem cable from the modem. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s761 Remove the single Phillips screw fastening the inverter cable. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s762 Disconnect the Bluetooth cable and deroute it. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s763 Peeling up yellow tape as necessary, remove the following 8 screws: One 4.5 mm Phillips on the right side of the heat sink. Three 6 mm Phillips near the display. Two large 7.5 mm Phillips with springs (don't forget to remove the springs). If the springs are not releasing, needle nose pliers can help get this done. Two 13 mm screws from the left side of the heat sink and the right side of the fan. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s764 Remove the yellow tape to free the cable from the left side of the heat sink. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s765 Disconnect the fan cable from the logic board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s766 Remove the orange tape on the trackpad side of the fan to free the fan cable. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s767 Grasp the heat sink near the copper conductor and lift it out of the computer, freeing it from tape and cables as necessary. If you need to mount the heat sink back into the laptop, we have a thermal paste guide that makes replacing the thermal compound easy. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s768 Remove the following five screws: One 3 mm Phillips near the screen latch (mind the big magnet on the screen latch). Two 3.5 mm Phillips attaching the EMI fingers to the metal framework. One 10 mm Phillips near the optical drive. One 14 mm long 4 mm standoff in the upper left corner. You can remove this standoff either with a 4 mm nut driver or needlenose pliers. Lift the EMI fingers above the battery connector away from the metal framework. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s769 Lift the end of the DC-to-DC board closest to the display and pull the board out of the computer. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s770 Disconnect the multicolor connector from the upper right corner of the logic board. Remove the following 2 screws: One Phillips buried under the cable to the right of the fan area. One Phillips holding down the display data cable on the left side of the computer. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s771 Disconnect the two connectors on the left side of the computer near the ports. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s772 Use the black plastic pull tab to disconnect the display data cable from the logic board. Deroute the display data cable, pulling up the yellow tape at the RJ-11 board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s773 Remove the single Phillips screw from the RJ-11 board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s774 Lift up the RJ-11 board from the left side and remove the Phillips screw from the metal framework. Remove the two Phillips screws securing the EMI fingers to the ports. Lift away the EMI fingers. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s775 Remove the following 5 screws: One 4.5 mm Phillips in the bottom left corner of the logic board. Two 6 mm Phillips to the left of the display hinge. One 10 mm Phillips to the upper left of the fan area. One 13 mm Phillips to the right of the headphone jack on the metal framework. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s776 Disconnect the orange optical drive cable from the logic board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s777 Lift the metal framework out of the computer. Be careful that the orange optical drive cable doesn't catch on the framework and be sure you haven't forgotten to disconnect any other connectors. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s778 Remove the two Phillips screws from the bottom right of the logic board. Do not lift the logic board out without disconnecting the DC-In connector underneath the logic board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s779 Lift the logic board partly up from the optical side. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s780 Disconnect the DC-In connector from the underside of the logic board. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s781 Remove the two Phillips screws from the upper right corner of the computer. Remove the newly-liberated small metal bracket. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s784 Remove the two recessed Phillips screws on the right side of the optical drive. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s785 Lift the optical drive up by its front left corner and pull it out of the computer. If you have a CD or any other object jammed in your optical drive, we have an optical drive repair guide. /Guide/Installing-PowerBook-G4-Aluminum-12-Inch-867-MHz-Optical-Drive/215/all#s786