I’m a little confused here, and could really appreciate someone‘s help clarifying issue. My 360’s BenQ drive stopped working. I swapped the board from it onto another BenQ drive I bought on eBay. The new drive was the same model, but different firmware version. I’m not sure if that matters. Anyway, it was able to play DVDs, but it’s not reading games. I assumed, because I swapped the boards, that I wouldn’t need to do anything else. Is it a case that I still have to try to recover the keys? I guess my overall confusion is that if I swap the board already, the key should be there, right? The new drive didn’t come with a board, so I don’t know where I would recover the keys from other than the board that I already swapped onto the new. Am I SOL?
Here we go.... First, specs: iMac (Early 2006 20-inch)* *Firmware updated to make it look like a late 2006 CPU: Upgraded Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 2.33GHz/4M/667MHZ/ (Socket M) RAM: 2GB PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 GPU: ATI Radeon X1600 256MB DDR3 Upgraded AirPort (Wi-Fi) card: Model No. BCM94321MC, 020-5280-A (pulled from a 2007-2007 MacBook 13”) Drives: Samsung 840 250GB SSD, Slot-loading 8x DVD-RW-DL OS Used: 10.8 Mt Mountain (hacked/patched), 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.4 Tiger This iMac came with an 802.11b/g card. I originality choose the BCM94321MC card mostly out of convenience, and the fact that it is supported in 10.4 through (at least) 10.8. I have another card that has a 2x3 MIMO spec on it, but it doesn't work in 10.4 (there may be a way to get it working, but wasn't really worth the effort to me). Also note that this iMac has an upgraded CPU, SSD, and the firmware was flashed to look like a late 2006 (Core 2 Duo) model. I used MacPostFactor to get Mac OS X 10,8 Mountain Lion running on this too. Test...
Apparently, someone's done it. Was looking for a blog about it. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-iBook-G3-533MHZ-Clamshell-with-PPC-G4-Processor-Swap/132101597235?_trksid=p2047675.c1000...
Once you free the back half, pull the the case forward, not up so much, or you’ll break the tabs on the sides by the optical drive on the right, and about the same place on the left.