Apple g5 Laptop User Manual


 
iMac G5 (20-inch iSight) Take Apart — Optical Drive 63
Note2. : Make sure to use a needlenose pliers with teeth to remove the optical drive. The pliers
must have a textured surface to properly grasp the optical drive release tabs.
Locate the black tabs at each side of the plastic optical drive mounting bracket. Starting at 3.
the release tab that is furthest from the logic board, grasp the tab with needlenose pliers,
and ex the tab toward the optical drive exible cable. (Note: This graphic shows a dierent
iMac model, but the removal procedure is the same.) Use one nger underneath the edge of
the optical drive to gently lift up that corner of the drive.