My Problem

I own a beautiful Imac Late 2009, still powerful enough to keep it a couple of years, even more I hope. I was wondering for a while if it was possible to insert an SSD, expecting a whole speedup while using it, hoping it will be useful to keep my mac and thus keeping a alot of money :D

Well, I found this website, the useful guides, and then I bought all the useful tools to help me doing it.

My Fix

The repair has been a flawless process. All went fine, except for the SSD caddy I bought on Ebay: The screw holes weren't on the good place, making me quite crazy. So I decided just to stick the whole thing together with tape. Well, it's kinda brutal, but it works.

Reassembling the whole pieces went fine. I've decided in the same time to upgrade my OS to Moutain Lion, I've previoulsy prepared a 8Gb USB stick with the new version to make a fresh install.

My Advice

Do not forget to find a tool to enable TRIM support, it is necessaray to maintain good performances, and apple officialy only support their own SSD. But with a such tool (mostly free) you can enable the TRIM command.

Now I'm searching for an external enclosure for my superdrive, could be useful one day or another :)

My Problem

My son has had his iPod touch for about 2 or more years and the battery was at a point that the unit would not hold a charge for very long. He uses this thing continuously and it is important to him. I had seen on iFixit that you had a replacement battery and the tools/instructions on how to do it. I am an electrician and a electronics enthusiast so ordered up the tools and replacement battery and got it done

My Fix

Did the repair in very short order, the instructions on the iFixit website guiding me all the time and the repair was a success, i am a hero because of you guys!

My Advice

iFixit ROCKS!

My Problem

My wife's iphone accidentally made it into the washing machine for a full wash cycle. After extensively drying it, it would only turn on when connected to wall power, and the battery would not hold a charge. I was hoping the lithium battery was just shorted past its minimum voltage. Since the phone did turn on, maybe I would get lucky and that would be the only problem.

My Fix

Repair went pretty smooth. Removed a few extra parts past removing the battery to make sure things were dry. Upon removing some of the connectors, there were whitish marks around some of the connector edges. It looked like corrosion or... burn marks. Well, time to find out. I put everything back together with a new battery and the phone turned on without wall power. It was not able to find a connection to the mobile network (just showed "Searching..." in the top right corner). Also the touch display was flaky in responding and the phone would reset every so often. So I think the white marks burn marks where the battery shorted. I think the shorts also caused other damage on the main board which lead me to the decision to not spend any more money on parts since there is a good chance most of the damage is on the main board itself. Iphone 5 may be release within the next couple of weeks and we are eligible for new phones so I think It will ultimately be cheaper to buy a new one.

My Advice

Downside to iphone is that you can't easily remove the battery. When you are in a situation where the phone gets wet, removing the battery before a short can occur can save your phone. In this particular case any phone probably would have been dust since it was in the whole wash cycle, but it did make me realize that there are times where removing a phone battery fast enough can save the phone. The built in iphone battery makes this impossible to do.

On a positive note I found the Magnetic Project Mat invaluable. I tore apart the iphone almost completely and there are so many little screws of different sizes that it would be really hard to keep track of what went where. Placing parts from each step in the different sections of the mat made putting it back together possible. I definitely recommend the magnetic mat if you take small things apart from time to time.

My Problem

Small server with dual drives and one crashed. Small SSD's were so cheap that I put in two of those added memory and it's like a new computer.

My Fix

Was afraid at first in getting the cover off but figured it out.

My Advice

Used your guide but it didn't really tell me that the wire sockets for the daughter boards may come off. Thought I had broke it and was ready to get out the soldering gun - then realized it was a socket that popped back on. All worked - job done - felt very good about it.

My Problem

Broken screen

My Fix

It went fine

My Advice

No advice here

My Problem

It had the three red rings.

My Fix

I used the kit to clean and reapply the thermal compound, then I reflowed the machine with a heat gun.

My Advice

Patience and attention to detail, don't rush it, it's worth taking your time.

My Problem

I needed to cut away some material

My Fix

Very well thanks to the good tools.

My Advice

Keep it up. What can I say? It worked as expected.

My Problem

Cheaper than a repair

My Fix

It would have been easyer if I was under 70 years old!

It took about 2 hours.

My Advice

I would advise not trying this unless, like me, you have spent the last ten years of your retirement building and repairing computers.

P.S. 45 years as a maintainence machinest.

My Problem

The graficchip looks like defect. But its mounted on the Logicboard. So first tried to backe the board (may the Chip could have some contact problems.) But didn't fix the Problem. So the board was to expencive to replace, so i get th HD away from the MacBook to backup the userdate via USB-SATA-Bridge to a iMac

My Fix

The Magnetizer/Demagnetizer "glues" the very smal screws at the screwdriver, the Spungers helped me to open the Cover an disconnect the cables, the Arctic Silver Thermal Past was used to remont the locigboard

My Advice

Look very carfully for the place of every screws at the MacBook - also some inside - to open the cover. See at the other Advice to replace the Board

My Problem

I professionally repair Apple products and had several to repair this day.

My Fix

Had to buy the right tools for the job and iFixit had just what I needed so the repairs were all a success!

My Advice

If your a DIYer this is the place for most of what you will need to do the job right. If this is a one time deal for you and your not technically inclined you should send it to someone like me but if your going to do it anyway, just go slow and follow the steps found on this website which is an invaluable resource.