On 4/11/04 6:02 AM, "Mark Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> I never have drawn blood taking the power supply out of a 7100.
> 
> Well consider yourself lucky. I did a strip service on the only actual
> 7100 I owned and cut myself no less then three times. One of those,
> IIRC, was lifting out the PSU I snagged my finger on part for the metal
> frame.
> 
Alright, I do consider myself lucky! Thanks for the caution, I have a couple
dozen 7100s, and all of them need tweaking under the hood occasionally!

>> Just remove the keepers, use a screw driver to loosen it, and it lifts
>> straight up out of the case. You have to remove the power supply
>> before you take out the drive tray to
>> add RAM, or do any other number of services on the machine.
> 
> And then plugging all the drives back in is a nightmare because the
> cables are all too short. :-S
> 
Yeah, that can be a struggle, now that you mention it!
> Nope i really hate that case. Sorry.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Benson

Thanks again for your timely and sound advice!

Chuck


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