Re: Removing the video card from the ss 10.

On 9/3/25 21:38, Mouse wrote:
>> Subject: Removing the video card from the ss 10.
> 
>> More than a decade since I changed the card in the ss 2 and don't
>> want to break brittle old parts.
> 
> Fair concern!
> 
>> Push the ivory colored nylon latch at each of two corners back to
>> release?   Lift the corners to disconnect the connector?
> 
> Well...I no longer have a 10 to look at.  But, on the 20, which is
> similar in many respects, there are three steps.  (Well, four if you
> count (0) turn the machine off, pull power, and ground yourself to the
> chassis.)  Steps (1) and (2) can be done in either order.
> 
> (1) Push back the latches at the back corners (the corners furthest
> from the part of the card exposed on the machine's back panel).  Of
> course, skip this step if they're not pulled forward so as to latch the
> card in place.
> 
> (2) Undo the screws holding the card to the machine's back panel.
> There are normally two of these, with small rectangularish washers made
> of some soft metal (aluminum?).
> 
> (3) Carefully lift the back corners of the card - the ones unlatched by
> step 1 - to disconnect it from the SBus, then further to mechanically
> disengage the plastic portions of the connectors.
> 
> Depending on the particular case, I sometimes find a tool useful for
> step (3).  This can be a pointed object like the point of an awl, a
> knife blade, a small flat-blade screwdriver, a small-sized Allen
> wrench...whatever helps, of course without causing physical hardware
> damage.

   He said SS2.

   Oh wait, he said SS2 in the body and SS10 in the subject.  Hrm.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA