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My Problem

The Nvidia video chip in the A1260 unfortunately has a serious problem, mine took 7 years to fail

My Fix

I considered reflowing the original logic board with a heat gun but eventually decided to replace the logic board. My only problem was detaching the small 2 pin connectors.

My Advice

Read the instructions carefully, I missed how to detach the small connectors and broke the connector on the PRAM battery.

And please make more parts available in the EU store!

My Problem

The battery in my iPhone 5s was failing.

My Fix

I purchased the iSclack in addition to the iPhone 5s Replacement Battery / Fix Kit. The iSclack made opening the iPhone case very easy and eased my concerns about breaking the display. The kit was complete and with the magnatized bit holder made swapping bits easy, as well as picking out the screws. Not having steady hands made the reconnections and re-screwing very challenging for me. I did , however, complete the repair and was pleasantly surprised at job when all functions of the iPhone worked properly.

My Advice

For me, a big help would have been to have a lighted magnifier, as well as figuring out sooner that the way to replace the screws was to use the smallest tipped phillips bit (supplied in kit) to grab onto the screw and once the screw was in place to use the proper sized bit to tightened the screw. I do not recommend using the supplied tweezer to grasp the screws, as it did not grip well and in fact did cause my screws to go shooting off.

My Problem

The mother board was damaged , After a repair shop tried to change the hdmi

So we a new were lucky to find a new one with you guys.

Very helpfull website , and onine info.

My son is very amased that we have got it working after everyone said it is scrap

Thanks

My Fix

Repair was a bit scary at first, It is the first time..

but your online guide was really help full

and kept us on track

and motivated

My Advice

Take your time , take plenty of pictures ,

before and after,

especially if you have a memory like mine.(goldfish)

help re assemle

be patient,

Help is always there to be found...

My Problem

A colleague at work had a 2012 MacBook Air that had just died, and had been quoted NZ$900 to replace the logic board. She decided instead l to just buy a new one. I said I'd give it a try to repair and get all her data back so she just gave me the dead air.

I bought a secondhand logic board through eBay for NZ$250 and the suggested tools from the ifixit guide.

My Fix

The repair went very well. I retrieved all the data off the air, and rebuilt with a fresh OS install.

My Advice

The only additional thing I did was to use a bunch of shot glasses to keep all the screws in for each step, and this made re assembly much easier.

My Problem

My 2009 iMac 24 inch 250 gig failed. I got it checkout with the Geek Squad at Best Buy and was told the Hard drive was the problem. So I bought a new iMac 21 inch, for about $1300.00. I was told about IFIXIT.com by the Geek who said NOT to try to use YOUTUBE because I could get some bad advise but to check out IFIXIT.com. I thought I would try to fix it with IFIXIT.com and save my old IMAC as a backup or resale it if I could fix it.

My Fix

The repair was SUPER easy for me! I ordered all the tools and the new 1T Hard drive from IFIXIT.com after I reviewed my exact IMAC on the IFIXIT.com website. I am fairly capable of taking electronics apart and repairing most simple items if I have the proper step by step instructions and photos as a guide.

The repair was so easy for me because I took my time, had a good clean working space, and allowed plenty of time to do the repair. I was not in any rush because I first got my new IMAC up and running great while I waited for the IFIXIT.com parts to arrive in two days. So now I have a new working IMAC with all my transferred data and programs.

Next I started the old IMAC repair after reviewing the instructions clearly two different times so I could understand the process well in my mind.

My Advice

As a word of advise. Take pictures of your repair before and after each IFIXIT.com step with your cell phone. Tag each picture with a step number by putting a "POST IT" note in each picture frame. Mark all wires with different colored electric tape so you can remember( i.e. red taped wire to red taped connector, blue taped wire to blue taped connector etc.)

Use your ipad or other computer to reference back to each step while making the repair. And finally use small plastic or foam drinking cups to put the tiny screws into marking each cup with a sharpie marker. Label each cup step # (?) (i.e. glass frame screws 10 screws or Hard Drive screws 4 screws.) Make sure you know which screws go where! For example long screws and short screws will go into different holes that look the same.