Re: Removing the video card from the ss 10.

For the SS10, it is usually wise to temporarily pull the RAM DSIMM nearest the SBus/MBus connectors, so that those nylon latches can swing fully out of the way whilst you are fiddling with the SBus cards.Regards,MikeSent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Mouse <[email protected]> Date: 04/09/2025  02:38  (GMT+00:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Removing the video card from the ss 10. > 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 issimilar in many respects, there are three steps.  (Well, four if youcount (0) turn the machine off, pull power, and ground yourself to thechassis.)  Steps (1) and (2) can be done in either order.(1) Push back the latches at the back corners (the corners furthestfrom the part of the card exposed on the machine's back panel).  Ofcourse, skip this step if they're not pulled forward so as to latch thecard 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 madeof some soft metal (aluminum?).(3) Carefully lift the back corners of the card - the ones unlatched bystep 1 - to disconnect it from the SBus, then further to mechanicallydisengage the plastic portions of the connectors.Depending on the particular case, I sometimes find a tool useful forstep (3).  This can be a pointed object like the point of an awl, aknife blade, a small flat-blade screwdriver, a small-sized Allenwrench...whatever helps, of course without causing physical hardwaredamage./~\ The ASCII				  Mouse\ / Ribbon Campaign X  Against HTML		[email protected]/ \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B