Yellow Light Instructions
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- Do not pull anything unless these instructions (or the white board) say to pull it. This includes ribbon cables.
- Hard drives should all have been removed by now. Please be certain that they have been.
- Remember to leave all rails and drive sleds in case!
- Remove anything that is on the Exceptional Components List (below)
- Removeable hard drive enclosures. (These look like little drawers).
- Remove the following types of memory
- SDRAM
- RAMBUS
- SODIMMS
- Remove the following cards
- Remove any PCI cards
- Remove any PCI-e cards
- Remove any AGP cards
- Remove power supplies
- (unless they are difficult to remove or would fail power supply triage)
- Removable button batteries
- Remove Macintosh batteries (in case you're taking apart a Mac)
- Remove 3.5 inch face plates
- Remove 5.25 inch curved DELL face plates (found in DELL systems only)
- Remove half height card slot covers
- High Speed or Ultra Speed CD RW
- They must have a standard 5.25" rectangular faceplate and not be laptop-sized.
- A drive is only High Speed or Ultra Speed if it literally says "High Speed" or "Ultra Speed" to the right of the "Compact Disc" label.
- DVD Drive
- They must have a standard 5.25" rectangular faceplate and not be laptop-sized.
- Front side card readers, only if it includes a cable
- Gigabit ethernet card (Network Card marked 1000)
- Wireless card
- Power supply with a SATA connector
- Molex to SATA power supply adapter
- Molex to 6-pin power supply adapter
- Motherboard with SATA connector(s)
- A really cool case that some geeky kid would drool over