My computer is fixed!

My poor iBook has been lying in pieces this last week. The hard drive was dead, and I got a replacement, but in order to fix it you have to take the whole darn thing apart (and the original tutorial I found gave you the added step of taking off the bottom shield which was BS and I did NOT need to do), so it took a long time to accomplish. We were up until 1 or something Wednesday I think or maybe Tuesday taking it apart, and then the rest of the week were too tired to deal with putting it back together.

Well, today we finally got around to it. It's like having a new computer. The hard drive had been dying for a long time, so it would be spinning and hanging up and generally performing horribly. Also, when we were putting it together, Ingi managed to get the Airport (wireless) card put back in properly (it hadn't been properly seated so my wireless wasn't working), so now I finally have wireless!! Whee!!! (Of course, he will tease me mercilessly about this me being the computer professional/electrical engineer).

So I am very happy to be writing this blog on the now-fixed Mac over wireless and everything!



So here's what's left over.... 4 screws. Actually, it's 2, there were 2 that wouldn't fit back in (probably we put them back in the wrong place, so now I have to go get replacements)... so there are 2 screws that we never did figure out where they came from. But aren't there always supposed to be extra parts? ;)