Installazione Disco Fisso nel Mac mini modello A1176

Scritto Da: Walter Galan

Commenti: 48

Installazione Disco Fisso nel Mac mini modello A1176

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Tempo Necessario

30 minuti - 2 ore

Introduzione

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Passo 1

Se la spatola è stata acquistata da iFixit.com, è possibile saltare questo passaggio. Le spatole vendute da iFixit hanno i bordi già sottoposti a molatura.
Per aprire il case, occorre una spatola. Una spatola sottile da 3,81 cm è l'ideale, tuttavia occorre levigarne il bordo. Strofinare il bordo corto della spatola in avanti e all'indietro su un foglio di carta vetrata a grana grezza (da 100 è ottimale) finché non si ottiene un bordo levigato.

I used a tool for opening the back of watches to replace the battery (the type that have the non screw-on backs). Worked fine!

Mike Haines -

IMHO there are many steps not necessary. The guide is very good but i can't find the reason for steps 7-15. It is all about freeing the internal frame. As far as i know it is enough to remove the antennas and the 4 screws holding the optical drive?!?!

Markus Obdenbusch -

Passo 2

Inserire con attenzione una spatola nella fessura fra il coperchio superiore e l'alloggiamento inferiore. Iniziare dal lato sinistro. Premere la lama finché non si avverte una certa resistenza (circa 0,95 cm).
Allargare delicatamente la fessura facendo leva sul manico della spatola verso il basso e lontano dal Mac mini.
È consigliabile iniziare dal centro e quindi procedere lungo il bordo finché l'alloggiamento inferiore non si sgancia leggermente.

Passo 3

A questo punto, inserire la spatola nella fessura sul lato dello slot dell'unità ottica del computer.
Far pressione sulla spatola verso il basso, mentre si opera lungo il bordo del Mac mini, finché l'alloggiamento inferiore non si separa ulteriormente da quello superiore.

Passo 4

Ripetere la medesima procedura indicata nei passaggi precedenti per il lato destro del Mac mini.
A questo punto, attorno al perimetro del Mac mini, dovrebbe essere presente una notevole apertura fra gli alloggiamenti superiore e inferiore.
Capovolgere il Mac mini.

Passo 5

Sollevare delicatamente l'alloggiamento superiore dal Mac mini e conservarlo altrove.
Potrebbe essere necessario inclinare da una parte e dall'altra l'alloggiamento superiore durante il sollevamento da quello inferiore. Se le linguette si bloccano sull'alloggiamento superiore, liberarle mediante la spatola.

For reassembly, test your Mini before replacing the cover. This could save time, should the test reveal problems.

Steve -

Passo 6

Più avanti nella guida, occorrerà rimuovere diverse viti con testa a croce incassate. Di solito, i portapunta sono troppo grandi per entrare negli incassi, pertanto accertarsi di avere a disposizione un cacciavite con testa a croce sottile e con albero.
Per prima cosa rimuovere l'antenna AirPort (la più grande delle due), in prossimità del pulsante di alimentazione.
Premere leggermente le due linguette di fissaggio l'una verso l'altra e sollevare l'antenna AirPort dal proprio alloggiamento.
Premere eccessivamente le due linguette può spezzarle dal telaio interno, pertanto operare delicatamente.
Durante la reinstallazione, occorre premere leggermente le due linguette affinché si adattino alle aperture sulla scheda dell'antenna AirPort.

Passo 7

Utilizzare la punta di un inseritore per sollevare leggermente il lato sinistro del bloccacavo ZIF dal rispettivo connettore femmina.
Il bloccacavo ZIF si solleverà di circa 1 mm per poi arrestarsi. Non tentare di rimuovere completamente il bloccacavo ZIF.

Now also lift the right side of the ZIF cable lock up from its socket.

chriZ -

Good catch of the incomplete unlocking instructions. ;P

lamarhavard - 25/12/15

Hmmm... what if I didn't read this before and I removed the cable and the lock sort of broke?... what would happen... would I experience problems? I can still put the cable back in place and push the lock back down with the spudger.

Dan O -

Same. I totally removed the lock , the edges are busted and won't stay in place, How can I get the cable to stay? what's the fix?

Suzanne -

Dan O & Suzanne, hold the cable in the socket and put a dab of hot glue on both sides, It's non-conductive and should hold...worked for me.

lamarhavard - 25/12/15

does any one know, where to get the connector from zhe ZIF Cable?

someone, that preowned my mac broke the holder!

julian gmeiner -

Julian, did you ever find where to get a replacement lock for the Zip Cable. Mine is also broken..

Suzanne -

This is not my first memory replacement in a Mini and I got over-confident and stupidly fully removed the audio cable ZIF lock and assumed I had broken something. But, now that I have read this guide more carefully, I am not sure. I sure would love to hear some detailed instructions for putting a ZIF lock back on.

Is it possible that I have removed it without having broken it? If I have broken it, do I have to buy a new cable? Just a new ZIF lock? A new audio board? This is a 2.0 GHz A1176.

Thanks!

GalvanicMacPro -

Michael, Mine seems to be broken. I bought & tried the Kapton Tape that was suggested & still no sound.

Suzanne -

C’est la première que je doit déverrouiller un câble ZIF. Je précise qu’il faut lever à gauche et à droite, ça force un peu, prendre appui sur le boitier du Mac, comme e montre la photo.

La partie noire reste dans la partie blanche (+1 mm), et la nappe flexible sort par le haut.

Ludovic - 17/12/17

Passo 8

Sollevare il cavo piatto della scheda audio dal connettore femmina.
Se non si solleva dal connettore, il bloccacavo ZIF non è del tutto sbloccato. Verificare che sia sollevato in modo uniforme di circa 1 mm dal connettore femmina nella scheda di interconnessione.

As an option to avoid potential damage when disconnecting the cable from the ZIF socket and clip, it is possible to unscrew the audio board and remove it along with the internal frame.

Nick Baldwin -

Passo 9

Ruotare il Mac mini affinché il meccanismo di caricamento dello slot SuperDrive sia rivolto verso l'utente.
Mediante un paio di pinzette, sollevare connettore del cavo del sensore termico del disco rigido dal connettore femmina sulla scheda logica.
Prendere il connettore con le pinzette (come indicato nell'immagine), ma non prendere i fili.
Il connettore si trova sotto l'apertura dell'unità ottica, accanto alla batteria PRAM.

Managed to leave this connected by flopping back the drive rather than totally removing

pglock -

WATCH OUT!!

separated one of the wires from the connector very easily. i would have preferred to use a spudger at this step. the tweezers in effect snipped the wire!!

mklsvg -

As my experience you should definitely use angeled tweezers as shown in several pictures. To avoid stripped cable deflash sharp edges of the tweezers a little bit. I never experienced problems when using that kind of tool carefully.

Timpetou -

I've had to remove a few of these connectors on iBooks and other small Apple devices ... I've found that, with careful and gentle pressure (working first one side and then the other) using a small flat-headed jeweller's screwdriver is best.

Mike Haines -

I agree Mike.

dixieskettlecorn - 23/03/18

Note where the airport antennae connecting wire comes out from the interior along the top. When reassembling, it has to be routed the same way, or it won't reach its install position.

robert -

If your fan runs at high speed after you complete this project, you have forgotten to reconnect the thermal sensor.

Curt -

Passo 10

Nei prossimi passaggi, verranno rimosse le quattro viti con testa a croce che fissano il telaio interno al case inferiore. Ciascun passaggio comprende un'immagine riepilogativa che mostra la posizione generale e un primo piano sulla vite specifica.
Rimuovere la vite con testa a croce incassata accanto al pulsante di alimentazione, che fissa il telaio interno all'alloggiamento inferiore.

Passo 11

Rimuovere la vite con testa a croce incassata accanto alla spia della modalità sospensione, che fissa il telaio interno all'alloggiamento inferiore.
Delle quattro viti che fissano il telaio interno al case inferiore, questa è la lunga.

Passo 12

Rimuovere la vite con testa a croce dal telaio interno, in prossimità dell'antenna Bluetooth.

Before removing any of these screws, there is another step needed which is not here:

On the front of the optical drive, right side as you look at the slot-load, is a small blue board attached by a single black screw. This needs to be removed before the optical drive can be taken out.

Mike Haines -

Passo 13

Rimuovere la vite con testa a croce accanto alle porte audio, che fissa il telaio interno al case inferiore.

On reassembly, if you don't have a magnetic screwdriver, a tiny dab of grease at the tip of your screwdriver will help hold the screw on the driver so you can lower it into the recessed slot.

pfbloom -

Passo 14

Sollevare delicatamente il telaio interno dall'alloggiamento inferiore, facendo attenzione a non incastrare il cavo dell'antenna AirPort o altri cavi.
Potrebbe essere necessario tirare in prossimità della scheda di interconnessione per la separazione dalla scheda logica.

At this point be careful that you don't pull out the Airport antenna ... but if you do, just check that it is back before re-assembling.

Mike Haines -

During re-assembly, the internal frame has to go in at an angle ... the back of the optical drive goes in first.

This means that you can seat the fan cover correctly, but more importantly, there is an interconnect board on the back of the optical drive that must be firmly pushed back into its housing on the logic board.

Mike Haines -

Reassembly: Before slipping the main frame back into its place, refer to earlier photos, ensuring proper routing of the WiFi cable.

Steve -

If, like me, you pull the wire on the airport antenna free, it snaps back into place easily. The connector is on the extra card screwed to the motherboard that looks like it has a phone battery embedded in it. The connector is at the top of the 'battery'. This accessory card is the wifi card, so it makes sense that the antenna plugs onto this.

Dan - 07/06/15

Passo 15

Rimuovere le due viti con testa a croce che la parte laterale del disco rigido al telaio interno.

Phillips #2 required for this step!

Javier Campos Delgado - 22/01/17

Passo 16

Rimuovere le due viti con testa a croce che fissano la parte inferiore del disco rigido al telaio interno.

Passo 17

Far scorrere con i pollici il disco rigido verso l'altoparlante, scollegandolo dalla scheda di interconnessione.

Passo 18

Estrarre l'unità ottica dal telaio interno.
Durante la reinstallazione, potrebbe essere utile spostare i cavi dal connettore SATA e tenere capovolto il telaio interno (sostenendo il disco rigido) per agevolarne il posizionamento nel connettore.
Non dimenticare di trasferire il rivestimento in schiuma alla nuova unità.
Se stai installando un nuovo disco fisso, abbiamo una guida di installazione OS X per aiutarti a tornare rapidamente al lavoro.

I thought I needed to reload the OS starting with the system disks which came with my mini. The problem I had was that the OS at that point would not recognize the new hard drive. The Snow Leopard disks did just fine.

Curt -

excellent instructions of how to remove hard drive

John Towers - 21/08/17

Well, only 5 screws left over! Time to see if it works… (I had to start with your step 12; I’ve put this job off for too long! Wish me luck.

Thanks for the encouragement, and the moral support.

Donald Jackson - 12/10/20

The thermal sensor cable in Step 10 is important during reassembly. Forgetting it will cause the fan to run all the time.

js290 -

Conclusione

Per riassemblare il dispositivo, segui queste istruzioni in ordine inverso.

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Walter Galan

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16 commenti

The foam on the harddrive is attached with an adhesive tape - be careful to peel up the tape from the harddrive, rather than the foam from the tape.

robert -

I seemed to succeed - until I discovered my optical drive had broken. Disks do not mount, after some tries they eject. There was a LOT of dust inside my Mini, I think some got in the optical drive. A cleaning DVD and compressed gas didn't fix it. I wonder if it would be wise to seal the opening to the optical drive -- certainly before cleaning.

This was a failure for me, even though the memory and drive change went well.

John Faughnan -

Can't fault this guide.

* if you don't have a putty knife & you don't mind some scratches, a thin butter knife will do the trick for getting the case off.

*if you plan to replace hdd with an ssd - you may need to rejig some of the internal wires that run around the edges of the hdd/ssd: after I installed the ssd, and returned the wires to the tight track around the side and socket port end of the ssd, and turned the machine back on, there was a high pitch interference noises coming out the internal speaker every time the drive was active.

The solution: make sure the speaker wire isn't where it's *supposed* to be! There are three sets of wires, include the speaker pair. I reversed the positioning of these with respect to the SSD, i.e. I moved the speaker pair to be furthest away from the SSD, and *didn't* tuck them back in under the plastic lip beside the ssd connector port. I turned it back on, and no more high frequency whining whenever the drive is active

Rodders -

I upgraded my 2007 A1176 Mac Mini with a 2 TB M9T drive that I broke out of Seagate Backup Plus Ext. HD and increased my RAM from 2 GB to 3 GB! Success!

Toshi Tazawa -

Be very careful with the audio cable removal the ZIF cable lock is VERY DELICATE!!!

Matt Canepa Jo Canales - 27/05/14

Love you guys! My old Mac Mini mid-2007 (2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo) was successfully upgraded with 240 GB Solid-State SATA hard drive as well as 3 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. The process took 30 minutes for both hard drive & RAM upgrade. It was easier than I anticipated. The Solid-State drive is superb making things runs so smoothly & quietly. Be careful with the delicate cables while upgrading. Follow the instructions step-by-step (I read 5 times & also watched the upgrade videos). And TAKE YOUR TIME. Funny, that the OS X install took longer than the upgrade (close to 1-1/2 hours). My next steps would be to replace the Airport card to 802.11 N and perhaps the Intel CPU to 2.3 Ghz. Thanks again!

erg208 - 25/10/14

be careful removing the ZIF CABLE LOCK... I did not expect it to be so frail and broke it even though being very careful since this is first time trying to upgrade the hard drive. having a very hard time trying to find a replacement online.

currypowpow89 - 01/03/16

Je ne vois pas comment remplacer le disque par un SSD ! Démonter le disque, OK ! Mais le remplacement ? (Fixation, câblage, etc... ?)

Jules Gourci - 03/08/16

Les SSD de 2.5" ont exactement les mêmes dimensions que les disques durs. Choisissez-les plutôt quel les SSD sous forme de barrette.

eric - 12/09/16

En aucun cas je ne vois comment installer le SSD (fixation, etc...)

Jules Gourci - 03/08/16

mad props to you folks for the written and video presentation. appreciate the help.

workingyouth - 13/01/17

As far as I can tell, I followed this guide correctly, but my poor Mini was so old that the plastic around the base was extremely brittle, and a number of pieces broke off as I opened the case. Everything inside still seemed ok, and the metal parts of the case still fit together fine, but having replaced the hard disk… it won’t turn on. At all. No chime, no action. I can’t see anything that looks to be dislodged or disconnected (apart from the bits of plastic grille that broke away), but it seems to be completely dead.

I has a sad Mac. :(

Robin Darroch - 11/04/19

False alarm! I unplugged the power supply, left it for a few minutes, then came back and plugged everything in… and away we go! Now to dig up my Lion install DVD... which, because the internal superdrive isn’t working any more, I’ll have to install using a USB DVD drive. With USB 1.1. Because that’s how we rolled in 2009.

Robin Darroch - 11/04/19

Hi, I followed the above steps and switched on. Things looked ok but when I went to install os the new HDD was nowhere to be found on disk utility. Tried putting old one back and same problem……any ideas?

Thanks

Gavin Barnes - 20/05/20

wonderful - thanks

r.holmes - 19/02/21

No problems following this tutorial to disconnect the HD. Mine didn't have the T shaped foam and the spring in the antenna holder. Both may have been discarded by the Authorized Apple Service Provider in the two previous HD changes. What took me by surprise was that the HD slipped away from the socket as soon as I removed the screws. As if the socket didn't hold the HD firmly. Thanks for the clear photos and caution tips.

Carlos Pedro -