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MovingTarget:

--- Quote from: Gaston77 on June 26, 2006, 10:09:03 am ---...I went ahead and took an IRON (yes, the one you use for your clothes!) and BURNT out the entire front panel ...
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 :laugh2:

Okay, now I don't feel so ghetto, thanks for the laugh!!

NightGod:
Holy crap-an IRON? LOL!! I contract as a field support tech for Dell and I'd love to get a call to a house where they attacked the machine with an iron. My digital camera would get overtime that week.

Those Dell front panel daughterboards ARE a PITA to replace, tho, I hate those calls. The 8400 series is by far the worst, though the new Dimension line suck pretty hard, too. The old Dimension 3000s or so were great, just a little plastic retainer that pops right out.

fatfingers:

For what it's worth, I have a Dell Dimension 4300 and the two wires I needed to tap into on the daughter board ribbon cable were the first two wires next to the end wire that is painted pink.  I did not use the pink one, just the two right next to that one.

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