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Thread ID: 70201	2006-06-25 11:04:00	How do you open the case?	Beemer (6956)	Press F1

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466043	2006-06-25 11:43:00	Blah blah blah. There is 20 trillion billion gazzilion different case designs, From simple right through to open a window and throw the pile of &^$$ infront of a bus. Without identification of the case this is all nonsence, Show us a pic.	Metla (12)
466044	2006-06-25 12:12:00	Blah blah blah. There is 20 trillion billion gazzilion different case designs, From simple right through to open a window and throw the pile of &^$$ infront of a bus. Without identification of the case this is all nonsence, Show us a pic. Grumps :p ... he/she got it open anyways	dolby digital (5073)
466045	2006-06-25 12:23:00	I would have posted a pic but I couldn't see any way (must be my night for blindness...) of attaching one to my post. (I belong to another forum that uses the same layout but it has fields for loading photos, etc.) I figured that the majority of people on this site who repair computers would be familiar with PC Company computers and as there was not a huge variety of cases with theirs, it was highly likely someone would know how to get into the case. And within minutes, many helpful people had come to my aid and I very quickly figured out how to get the case open. The addition of the right sized Phillips screwdriver made the operation totally painless! And now, at a not-indecent hour of the night, I have SOLVED the problem of how to open the case, installed my Ethernet card and the enclosed software, and can sleep the sleep of a person who is happy she was able to do all this from the comfort of her own home and at no cost! Thank you all, I feel quite proud of myself now! And you would NEVER have guessed I'd never played around with the insides of a computer before, would you? Oh wait, I tell a lie - my old Mac LC475 needed a new battery once and I did take the cover off that to install it! Oh, and I remember now, I had to ring Magnum Mac and ask how to remove the old battery... do I detect a theme developing here? Anyway, a BIG thank you for all the VERY useful advice. PS, after all my success, I hope the card IS installed properly! I noticed an adjacent card had the connecting slots firmly in place but when I tried to - gently - push the Ethernet card into the white slots and then screw it in, it moved slightly, so the connecting bits weren't as deeply pushed in. I tried a few times but each time I went to screw it in, it would move again so I gave up! There seemed to be no way of screwing it in without it moving.	Beemer (6956)
466046	2006-06-25 12:28:00	1. I rapidly went through your post, Missing all key details including the case description. 2. Then I decided everyone else was sending you up the wrong path by assuming it was a PC-Company tower. 3. I posted 4. Muhahahahaha.	Metla (12)
466047	2006-06-25 12:33:00	1. I rapidly went through your post, Missing all key details including the case description. 2. Then I decided everyone else was sending you up the wrong path by assuming it was a PC-Company tower. 3. I posted 4. Muhahahahaha. You are hereby forgiven. Speed reading is an admirable quality... except when posting in online forums!	Beemer (6956)
466048	2006-06-25 23:05:00	Speaking of cases, it took me half an hour to get inside a fugly little Compaq PC last week . :blush: Darn thing had several dozen screws at the back of it, none of which looked like the right ones to undo and the plastic front was stuck as tight as a paua on a rock so I was well and truly baffled . Right at the last minute when I was ready to throw the thing out the window I once more undid the two screws that could only be the correct ones and had the brilliant idea of yanking on this metal handle type of thing at the back . Lo and behold the inside frame slid neatly out of the case on runners just like those secret doors that magically open on games like Tomb Raider when you solve the puzzle (not that I have ever seen, let alone played Tomb Raider, but I'm sure that sort of thing happens in those sorts of games) . So, after all that time I was finally able to install the nice shiny new CD writer . Not that that was a quick and easy affair either . . . Thanks to a stupid front half-flap only one optical drive could be used with said flap closed, the other is hidden behind it so the old CD drive had to be moved down for the writer to be installed in its place . OK, that wasn't a problem, but no way could both drives be hooked up at the same time . That was mainly due to the new drive being shorter in length than the old one but the very tight fit and obstructions within the case didn't help despite there being hardly anything inside the thing . The really amazing part was how heavy this fugly little Compaq is - it would easily weigh twice as much as PCs way bigger . Thank goodness it is the only one like it that I have come across so far . :rolleyes:	FoxyMX (5)
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