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From: The New guy on 4 May 2008 12:26
> I get excellent FPS in WoW with my 24" white iMac with the
> NV 7600 video upgrade. Just today, I finally got the nerve to take
> my iMac apart to see if there might be dust&dirt inside
> contributing the the heat problem (which I never see
> except in WoW). It actually seemed pretty clean, though I
> did blow out what I could. Played a little WoW afterwards..
> just to test, of course. :-) The temp seemed a bit better,
> but that might have been a combination of wishful thinking
> and happenstance.

I don't suppose you ran the machine with the back cover off to see what
the difference in temps might have been? I've been looking for pics of
it with the back cover off. Is this it?
http://mactree.sannet.ne.jp/~kodawarisan/imac_intel/01141052.jpg
http://www.macseven.com/files/20080303_imac_hard_drive_upgrade.html
Hi-res images of above:
http://www.macseven.com/assets/iMac_Upgrade_Pix.zip

Unfortunately it looks like running it without the back on might be
impossible as it looks like all the parts are mounted on the back.
Perhaps someone else could confirm if that is correct.
From: Jim Gibson on 5 May 2008 16:29
In article <1igc7bd.1lrrmi7jwldq6N%nospam(a)see.signature>, Richard Maine
<nospam(a)see.signature> wrote:

> My biggest problem was the T8 screws that hold the LCD panel to the
> frame. You have to reach down into a bit of a cavity to get at them. Of
> course, after I unscrewed them, they fell over within the cavity.
> Tweezers got them out ok, though. Putting them back in was a PITA. My
> newly bought T8 screwdriver wasn't magnetic, so it wouldn't hold onto
> the screws to lower them back into the cavity. I was just about to go
> out and see if I could find a magnetic one, when I finally got another
> trick to work. Tweezers again, but not the tweezers I had used at first
> (the ones from my pocket knife). I tried a different set of tweezers and
> managed to use them to lower the screw onto its hole and leaning against
> the frame in such a way that I could then screw it in. Once I got the
> trick, it went fairly smoothly with the rest of them also.

I tape the screw to the screwdriver, making sure that the tape adheres
better to the screwdriver than the screw (not hard to do) and that
enough of the screw threads stick out beyond the tape to start the
screw into the hole. Once you have a few turns of the screw set into
the hole, you pull out the screwdriver and remove the tape.

--
Jim Gibson

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