Re: Removing the video card from the ss 10.

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> 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.

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