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Power Macintosh 8600(250) Teardown

Device	Power Macintosh 8600(250)
Difficulty	Moderate
Time	No estimate
Steps	14

This guide is by Plague on iFixit and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. ByteRot mirrors it for non-commercial preservation: formatting changed and photos resized for old browsers; full-size photos and the text are on the FTP in /DOCS/REPAIR. Original guide >>

Going to take apart my Power Mac 8600/250!

Tools:

#1 Phillips screwdriver

Spudger/Flathead screwdriver

Your hands!

Tools: Phillips #0 Screwdriver; Spudger

Step 1

• There she is! i'm missing the bezel around the floppy drive :(

Step 2

• Start by pressing the big green button. And pulling the door away and up from the computer.
• And on the Back of the door is the fan.

Step 3

• Now it's best to lay the computer flat.
• And to flip up the tabs, grab the handle and open.

Step 4

• The innards, motherboard, daughter board, RAM and so fourth.

Step 5

• Now the speaker
• Remove the speaker wires
• And the fan wires from the motherboard
• Push in the two plastic tabs on either side and lift the speaker up and out.

Step 6

• The PRAM battery!
• Remove the housing by pulling it out and then take the battery out.

Step 7

• The processor, firmly grasp and pull out.
• Remove the 4 #1 Phillips screws
• And push the 4 tabs off of the board

Step 8

• Any video card or usb card, mine happens to be an ethernet 10/100 card.
• Unfortunately there are 6 spaces but only 3 slots on the motherboard :(
• Remove the #1 Phillips screw and pull the card out.

Step 9

• RAM and VRAM slots!

Step 10

• Moving on to the CD, ZIP, and Floppy drives (best to close computer now)
• Remove the bezels and if I had the top one remove that too.
• Remove the 6 phillips screws and pull the metal frames out.

Step 11

• Remove the data and power cables
• Pay special attention to this one, it has a clip on it, it helps to use a flathead or a spudger.
• Pull the drives out of the bay.

Step 12

• Now the hard drive.
• Remove the two phillips screws
• And the data and power cables (might help to remove them as you pull the drive out)

Step 13

• The power source
• Remove the two connectors
• There is a clip holding the wires in place. Separate and remove the wires. (both sets)

Step 14

• Now remove the 4 phillips screws (it's best to start with the bottom two)
• And pull it out while de-threading the wires.

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