Mine is fixed now and it only took me about 15 minutes! But be warned, I didn't manage to get the wifi card out.
The instructions by pbroughton in another thread were extremely helpful, but I found to get to the wifi card the following ... - T10 bit in a changeable bit screwdriver is fine, there are no tight spaces for this job - I pulled the white ribbon cable out and put it back without much difficulty, rather than leave it connected - with the boom on its back, angling the board up from the right hand side and then pulling the whole board up GENTLY whilst moving it from side to side allowed about 1/2cm of cable to ease out from the back which made disconnecting the white plug MUCH easier, I tried to get the angle so that I was essentially pulling the connector out of its socket rather than ripping the connector off the board Once the board was out, I disconnected both aerials and carefully prised the glue off the aerial cable that was glued to the card. I was able to wiggle the card out of its socket only by about 3mm, which was past the point where it was held by the latches, but then as I pulled further, when I let go it sprang back!! I could only get it partway out. I tried pushing on the metal can with a lolly stick, figuring that it should be ok-ish as it is soldered down all the way round, but I started to dent it :eek: Similar looking sockets require the board to be lifted up whilst pulling out but that wasn't happening easily to my wifi card. Without more detailed knowledge I was not prepared to use even more force or try lifting the card away from the board. So I slid it back into place, reassembled and it works great now. Of course it will be useful for me to know the trick to get the wifi card out, in case I have issues in the future, and essential for you to know if you're going to manage to replace the wifi card. Hope this helps. Gingerlee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gingerlee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110792 _______________________________________________ Boom mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/boom
