Found a nice Mac on FB marketplace. But advertised as suddenly slow.
But at £50, thought I’d give it a shot, I’ve always been happy building PC’s.
Blackmagic disk monitor was reporting 5mb/s, so disk was obviously the prime suspect.
Bought a 512gb NVMe, and the Sintech adapter.
Decided to remove the hdd entirely and the sata cable, and swap the existing 32gb blade ssd for the new, larger one.
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Looked at the forecast, rain all day. [br]
Decided to spend a morning taking apart my new iMac, installing an SSD and defluffing it. [br]
Followed the comprehensive iFixit guide online, and quite enjoyed taking a nicely built machine apart. Then putting the cleanest Mac in England back together. [br]
Then it wouldn’t turn on. [br]
Take it all apart and check my work. [br]
All back together again. Still nothing. [br]
Start checking PSU with a multimeter. Seems to be supplying 12v to the logic board. [br]
Perhaps it’s a conflict with the ssd/removing the Sata cable?
Put it all back to standard, exactly as it came to me.
Nothing. Sweet FA. [br]
In frustration I put the last few bits back in, and forget to unplug it. [br]
Scare the wife by giving myself a fairly good wallop from the back of the PSU. Definitely supplying power to the logic board. [br]
It’s now 6 o’clock, and I’ve been cocking about with this since 9am. And the sun came out around 4, but I was determined to finish it. [br]
It’s now in the spare room, cos I’m not spending £120 on a second hand logic board. [br]
FML.
Found a nice Mac on FB marketplace. But advertised as suddenly slow.
But at £50, thought I’d give it a shot, I’ve always been happy building PC’s.
Blackmagic disk monitor was reporting 5mb/s, so disk was obviously the prime suspect.
Bought a 512gb NVMe, and the Sintech adapter.
Decided to remove the hdd entirely and the sata cable, and swap the existing 32gb blade ssd for the new, larger one.
—————————————
Looked at the forecast, rain all day. [br]
Decided to spend a morning taking apart my new iMac, installing an SSD and defluffing it. [br]
Followed the comprehensive iFixit guide online, and quite enjoyed taking a nicely built machine apart. Then putting the cleanest Mac in England back together. [br]
Then it wouldn’t turn on. [br]
Take it all apart and check my work. [br]
All back together again. Still nothing. [br]
Start checking PSU with a multimeter. Seems to be supplying 12v to the logic board. [br]
Perhaps it’s a conflict with the ssd/removing the Sata cable?
Put it all back to standard, exactly as it came to me.
Nothing. Sweet FA. [br]
In frustration I put the last few bits back in, and forget to unplug it. [br]
Scare the wife by giving myself a fairly good wallop from the back of the PSU. Definitely supplying power to the logic board. [br]
It’s now 6 o’clock, and I’ve been cocking about with this since 9am. And the sun came out around 4, but I was determined to finish it. [br]
It’s now in the spare room, cos I’m not spending £120 on a second hand logic board. [br]
FML.