The right fan on my mac stopped working, I have scheduled an appointment at the mac store genius bar (its still in warranty).
I have installed a second hard drive in place of the super drive, and also upgraded the hard drive (to SSD) and the ram (to 16GB).
Do I need to restore everything before taking it into the mac store for repair? (ie put back in the superdrive and hdd)?
Best Answer
Did you install the second hard drive yourself? If so then your best bet is to swap your SuperDrive back in before taking it in for service.
I cover this scenario in more depth with this answer:
Basically if it was a user replaceable part (it's not) you wouldn't run much risk of them blaming a failure on your upgrade. The problem though is that with the optical drive not being considered a user replaceable component, and the replacement being a somewhat major (in their eyes) modification, they have every right to deny coverage since they have no way of knowing if proper ESD precautions and whatnot were followed.
If I were you I'd play it safe. The Superdrive installation isn't terribly difficult and could save you a lot of arguing if you don't get a Genius who just looks the other way.