Hardware Reference
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After you remove all three screws, slide the drive bay slightly toward the rear
of the chassis to free the locking tabs and lift the drive bay clear of the chassis,
as shown in Figure 3-7.
Fragile Connectors
Be extremely careful when you remove and replace the internal 3.5” drive bay. When
this bay is removed, the panel ends of the front-panel connector wires are visible,
including those for the power switch. The fine-gauge wires connect to tiny pins on
the backs of the switches, and somehow we managed to pull the power switch wire
loose from the power switch.
We didn't discover that until we were connecting the power switch wires to the
motherboard, so we had to remove the internal 3.5” drive bay to repair the connec-
tion. The pins on the power and reset switches are tiny and fragile, so it would be
quite possible to snap them off entirely by putting tension on the wires connected to
them. You have been warned.
Place the drive bay on a flat surface, right-side up. Slide your hard drive into
the drive bay, with the rear (data and power connector side) of the hard drive
toward the rear of the drive bay. Slide the drive forward and backward until
two of the screw holes in the hard drive align with the holes in the rubber
grommets on the drive bay. When the drive is correctly aligned, the rear of
the drive should protrude slightly from the rear of the drive bay, as shown in
Figure 3-8.
Figure 3-7.
Slide the 3.5” internal drive bay
slightly toward the rear of the case and lift
it out
Figure 3-8.
Slide the hard drive into the internal drive bay and secure it with four hard drive
mounting screws
