unfortunaly fire wire target disk doesnt work my ibook did not pick up on the emac my wallstreet is not firewire equipped and im not sure if my intel imac could be arsed to do it

i crawled in the emac and seeing that i am posting this from it i am not dead and nor is the emac

never the less it was a fight up hill all the way

first of all 3 of the hex screws had the holes tapped out so i had to go out and buya cheap ass dremel clone ( godo excuse i wanted one for ages anyway )

i spend the next 2 hours working on the three screws and giving my self irreperrable tinnitus in the process to grind out a groove in each screw so i could lodge a flat head screw driver in the groove

first hurdle over come

second hurdle dissasambeling the emac ...my look at all the screws !

third hurdle getting the dvd cradle out was harder then i tought and i bent a few things

as it turns out i found out why the dvd player was behaving like it did two pins of the power cable were almost completley torn of the pcb while the ide controller was in dire state with black scorch marks ...great al that trouble for nothing

so cursing all the way i put the emac back together again ( oh look left over screws ..wonder where those go )

to over come hurdle number four that little power wire i fiddeld for 15 minutes only to find out hurdle number 5 i didnt put the speaker rray back far enoiugh

so off come the hood again pushed the speakers back ...swearing alot and spend another 15 minutes fiddeling with the power button and its idiotically small curled wired

finally succes but when i want to pop the cover back on i find it restisting i cant even line it up properly with the hex screw holes

bugger you thought i i have had enough of you and left that to fight for another day

i booted the emac to find out that the dvd driver now totally died

demon i yelled at it it hought i was done with thee !

in a fit of idle curiosity i hooked up my external dvd writer and plunked in my tiger cd restarted it and held option to force it to display the boot disc choice

i chose the tiger installer disc thinking it wont work and went away for a bit

when i returned the emac had booted alright and was waiting for me to okay mac os X tiger installer

which i off course did

and tiger installed just fine

i wish i had tought of this yesterday before i wasted 6 hours on it

i just wonder why it is suddenly able to boot off the external usb dvd when it wasnt able to do that yesterday maybe because the internal dvd rom finally died

whatever at least the beast works

how ever this is the second macintosh i have whose internal cd rom player is borked the ibook shares this ( its a mac book air only thicker heavier and 7 years older )

i can savley say though that this day was awfull

now what am i supposed to do with all these screws ?