My Problem

The company offered to send me a replacement device for 90$. I paid 100$ and a new device is 250$. I have heard of retailers who advertise any battery for anything.

My Fix

Sadly my golf GPS has the only battery you can't replace. The correct physical size and lead configuration proved almost impossible to duplicate. Sometimes bullet-biting just makes sense.

My Advice

Always do your homework before attempting repairs. Research into this repair revealed all sorts of tortured souls on several continents attempting this seemingly simple repair. All with the same results as mine.

My Problem

My mechanical hard drive was working very, very, very slowly.

Everytime I was opening a new file, the waiting cursor appeared, when I wanted to read a file, it was very slow, etc..

The mac was not "usable".

My Fix

Perfectly, in 30min, it was finished !

My Advice

Take your time, go step by step, and be careful.

My Problem

I upgraded my iMac to a solid state drive.

My Fix

Very smoothly, much easier than people were making it out to be.

My Advice

If you have a second person to help, you do not need to remove the LCD screen + lots of cables. You just need to remove the first one, and have the other person hold the screen up while you work. It's much faster this way, and much easier to remember everything you need to do when putting it back together.

My Problem

Power supply went out on my 24 inch iMac (again!).

My Fix

The repair information was spot on. The only problem was that I just bought the tools that were suggested after choosing my part. I didn't look through the instructions and so I was missing a T6 Torx driver and had to stop and go buy one. Other than that it was a straight forward fix.

My Advice

Make sure you have all the tools before you start!

My Problem

The Hard drive on our 21.5" iMac failed.

My Fix

Took less than an hour working with the hubs - Easy Peasy.

My Advice

Make sure the display cable is firmly connected - we had to go back and reconnect it!

My Problem

I found a free iMac G5 on Craigslist which didn't turn on. I needed to take off the screen, and the only tool that would fit into the opening was a thin T10 Torx driver. I got the security bit driver because I already own a whole set of Torx drivers, but none of them were thin enough, and I figured I might need the security feature in the future.

My Fix

The driver fit in the spot needed, and I took the whole thing apart. Still haven't swapped out the power supply, which is the whole reason I took it apart, but since it was a free project I am not in a rush.

My Advice

Don't try to use a "security bit" set for your electric drill to get in there, just use the right tool and it's infinitely easier.

My Problem

My 24" iMac wouldn't start up after working fine. I tried a different power cord and that didn't work either. Came to the conclusion that the power supply had failed.

My Fix

I ordered everything from ifixit and followed their step-by-step guide to get inside the iMac. I removed the old power supply, replaced it and guess what? My iMac is now good as new! Everything went perfectly.

My Advice

Just go slow and follow each step carefully. My mac was actually a little different looking inside than the pictures with the guide, but pretty close. Be careful loosening the power supply cables so you don't break anything. These were in tight.

My Problem

I originally had a hard disk failure with my iMac's stock internal 500GB Hard Disk from Seagate, so I decided to use ifixit's services to replace that drive since I've had a good experience in the past with ifixit for replacing my iPhone 4's back glass panel.

My Fix

The repair was a challenge but fun to see the guts of my iMac for the first time and to really appreciate all of Apple's work both on the outside and inside of their products, however once I successfully completed the surgery I was thrilled to find my iMac coming back to life, except for the fact that although my iMac now works, I was stuck with this continuous and loud noise from the internal fan, the replacement HDD I picked was the one from Hitachi at 1TB as apposed to the 500GB Apple Seagate and I'm no tech expert so I don't know what the pros or cons are from the two or any other brand except for the storage, never the less I did find a neat trick to sort-of resolve this issue, I found out about HDD Fan Control for the mac http://www.hddfancontrol.com/ and this did the job, the iMac's internal fan now spins quietly, but what I want to know is, has anyone been able to fix or solve this kind of issue without a software fix? Did I miss something in the replacement steps?

My Advice

Dispite the issue with the loud high spinning fan noise after the replacement I actually enjoyed cracking open my iMac and fixing it, it's almost like a giant, delicate and expensive puzzle, lots of fun and appreciation!

Sorry I don't have any pics :/

My Problem

Wanted a faster disk in my older 2009 27" iMac which otherwise works great. Prices and reliability on SSDs seemed to be pretty good these days, compared to replacing the entire iMac. I bought a Samsung 830 series SSD.

My Fix

I followed the excellent iFixit guide "http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac-Intel-2... and had no difficulties. Overall, it took maybe 30 minutes. I used a Silverstone 3.5-to-2.5 bay adaptor, which worked perfectly.

My Advice

This was easier than it looked -- the glass comes right off without much effort. The lack of a temp sensor in the SSD was easily fixed by shorting the cable with a small piece of wire -- don't be afraid of that hack!

The funny thing is that the day after installing the new disk, I got an email from Apple about problems with the 1TB disk, offering to replace it. I'll keep the SSD, thanks!

My Problem

My computer is a pretty important part of my life. I am totally paperless at home. I wanted an easy way to be able to recover from the inevitable hard-drive crash without having to re-install my programs and restoring my data individually. I also wanted to insure I would not have to wait for needed parts.

My Fix

I bought the replacement HD, external HD enclosure, and necessary tools used for iMac HD replacement. I placed the tools in my "Disaster Preparedness Kit" and put it away. I installed the replacement HD in the external enclosure. I now clone my HD once a month with free software. When the HD crashes, I'll install the clone, and only need to recover the last month of data. Hopefully, I'll only be down an hour or so, as opposed to days, while waiting for parts and restoring programs and data.

My Advice

If you want the easiest, quickest way to recover from the dreaded, inevitable, and time consuming HD crash. This plan just might be the ticket.