Re: Removing the video card from the ss 10.

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

peter%easthope.ca@localhost wrote:
> More than a decade since I changed the card in the ss 2 and don't want
> to break brittle old parts.

Fair concern. I discovered that the cream plastic of the cases became 
completely brittle. My Case cracked in two! I glued it... but also my 
UltraSparc 2 just sitting there had a big part broken out... incredible 
Apparently in all my Suns it became completely rigid.
Before that it was only the different (and worse) violet  plastic of the 
tabs of the SS5/SS20 violet angles.
It's worrying!

My IPC instead seems to hold instead...

> Push the ivory colored nylon latch at each of two corners back to
> release? Lift the corners to disconnect the connector?

Remove the latches (if present and if hatched). They are nylon, 
shouldn't break. Pull upwards, jigglig slightly, holding the card 
firmly. The connector might be a little stuck and oxydized. Carefully 
not to have it come up on one side only. Once you have it disconnected, 
wait to pull it, but push the card slightly in direction of the back. 
The metal part with the video connector might have some metal tabs. Then 
finally pull out. Usually it is very easy though.

Riccardo