Use a coin to rotate the battery locking screw 90 degrees clockwise. Lift the battery out of the computer. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s446 Pull the keyboard release tabs toward you and lift up on the keyboard until it pops free. If the keyboard does not come free, use a small flathead screwdriver to turn the keyboard locking screw 180 degrees in either direction and try again. Flip the keyboard over, away from the screen, and rest it face-down on the trackpad area. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s451 If your computer does not have an Airport card installed, skip to the RAM shield removal step. Push the wire clasp toward the Airport card and pull it up to free it from the RAM shield. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s452 Grasp the clear plastic tab on the Airport card and pull toward the right. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s453 Hold the Airport card in one hand and use your other hand to remove the antenna cable. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s454 Remove the two Phillips screws that secure the RAM shield. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s455 Grasp the metal bracket on top of the RAM shield and pull upward to remove the shield. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s456 Pull the keyboard cable up from the logic board, holding the cable as close to the connector as possible. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s457 Use a pin (or anything you like) to remove the three rubber feet from the lower case. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s459 Remove the three newly-revealed Phillips screws. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s460 Use a spudger or small flathead screwdriver to pry up the three metal rings that housed the rubber bumpers. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s461 Remove the three hex screws using a T8 Torx screwdriver. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s462 Remove the two Phillips screws on either side of the battery contacts. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s463 Breathe deeply. Trying times are ahead, but we promise the lower case does come off. Push the thin rims of the lower case surrounding the battery compartment in, bending them past the tabs, and then lift up to free that corner of the lower case. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s464 There is a slot on the wall of the battery compartment that locks the lower case in place. Use a small flathead screwdriver to pry out the slot's lower rim and pull up on the lower case to free the slot from the tabs holding it. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s465 Run a spudger along the seam between the lower case and upper case on the front of the computer to free the tabs locking the lower case. Pull up on the lower case and continue to use the spudger as necessary until you hear three distinct clicks. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s466 Continue to run the spudger around the front, right corner. There are two tabs on the port side of the computer, one near the front corner and one near the sound out port. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s467 Once the front and sides of the lower case are free, turn the computer so that the back is facing you and pull the lower case up and toward you until the back tabs pop free (it may be helpful to jiggle the case up and down). /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s468 Remove the small greasy springs with white plastic caps from either side of the battery contacts. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s469 All of the screws in the following step have small heads - the screws with larger heads hold the bottom shield on. Remove the following 9 screws on the bottom of the computer: Three 3 mm Phillips around the battery compartment. Three 5 mm Phillips on the left and bottom edges. Three 14.5 mm Phillips on the top and right edges (you may have to peel back the foil tape to reveal the screw near the security lock slot). /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s470 Turn over the computer and open it. Remove the following 3 screws on the edges of the keyboard area: Two 6 mm Phillips underneath the keyboard area. One 9 mm Phillips above the keyboard area. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s471 This is a diagram of the ribbon clamp connectors you will disconnect in the next step. 1) With your fingernails, grasp the locking bar on either side and pull up a small amount (about 1/16" or 2 mm). 2) After disengaging the locking bar, slide the cable out of the connector. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s472 Loosen the trackpad connector by pulling the top piece up slightly, freeing the trackpad ribbon. Slide the orange trackpad ribbon out of the connector. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s473 Use a straightened paperclip to open the optical drive tray, and pull it out about halfway. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s474 Don't lift the upper case off the computer yet as there are still two cables left to disconnect. Lift the upper case from the left side and use your other hand to pull out the right side in order to clear the power receptacle. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s475 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. Lift the upper case enough to disconnect the blue and white power cable from the logic board. Using your fingernails or a dental pick, carefully pry the connector from its socket. Make sure you're pulling only on the connector and not on the socket. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s476 Lift the upper case off completely and disconnect the red and black speaker cable from the logic board. As before, make sure you're pulling only on the connector and not on the socket. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s477 Remove the following 16 screws: Five 3 mm Phillips (these have smaller heads than the others). Three 5 mm Phillips. Eight 6 mm Phillips. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s481 If you have already removed the yellow tape, skip this step. Peel back three strips of yellow tape in the bottom, left corner. Peel back one strip of foil tape near the audio-out port, one near where the trackpad connects to the logic board, and one near where the screen latch used to be. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s482 Lift the top shield up from the right side, minding the upper left corner, which may catch on the metal framework. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s483 Remove the single Phillips screw to the right of the hard drive connector. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s488 Lift up the front edge of the hard drive. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s489 Peel back the black tape to free the microphone cable from the hard drive. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s490 Lift the hard drive out of the computer and turn the hard drive over. Use the transparent orange loop to disconnect the hard drive ribbon cable from the hard drive. This is a bit tricky. Try rocking the cable gently from side to side while applying even pressure. If you bend the pins, do your best to straighten them, using the hard drive cable as a guide. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s491 Remove the metal brackets from either side of the hard drive (if they're still there). With the pins facing away from you, and the label facing up, the bracket with a tab in the middle and a metal slot on it goes on the left side of the drive; the other bracket, of course, goes on the right. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s492 Remove two T8 Torx screws from either side of the hard drive (four screws total). /Guide/Repair/iBook-G3-14-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/147/all#s493