iFixit

Removing the DVD-ROM Power

Before we can continue, there are 3 T8 Torx screws hidden here that we need to remove.

Lift the hard drive and the plastic attatched to it out, you will need to route the power cable so you can get it out.

Removing the DVD-ROM Drive.

Lift the DVD-ROM drive and the plastic attatched to it out. This reveals the logic board.

The Logic Board

Removing the Heatsinks.

The Big one to the right, is the CPU, the smaller one to the left is for the GPU.

Lift the black tab up on the cpu heatsink. this will release the tension on the chip.

Then use a flathead screwdriver to remove the clip. Then Lift the CPU heatsink out (this may take some force)

The CPU

So What's Under Door Number One?

An Intel Pentium III CPU running at 733Mhz.

This is actualy a surprise, because almost every other console out there uses an IBM PowerPC CPU, this makes us wonder, could this console emulate windows?

It also raises the question, why did Microsoft Switch to PowerPC, around the same time Apple switched to Intel?