How do you remove the expansion covers from the Antec 3000B?

Sgt_Strider · Post by **Sgt_Strider** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:54 pm

The expansion covers for the PCI, PCI-Express slots are covered. I don't know how to remove them and Antec is lacking some serious documentation on it...

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:27 am

You're talking about the PCI slot covers? You just pull them straight out. They're only held in by friction and a little nub, not screwed into place like typical ones.

Sgt_Strider · Post by **Sgt_Strider** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:24 am

Ralf Hutter wrote:You're talking about the PCI slot covers? You just pull them straight out. They're only held in by friction and a little nub, not screwed into place like typical ones.

Yea, I'm talking about the PCI covers. Just pull them out? Are you sure that I don't have to bend anything to pull it out? It seems like it's stuck pretty hard.

scrandman · Post by **scrandman** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:55 am

Sgt_Strider wrote:Yea, I'm talking about the PCI covers. Just pull them out? Are you sure that I don't have to bend anything to pull it out? It seems like it's stuck pretty hard.

I found them quite hard to remove. I ended up using long nose pliers and had to bend them slightly to disengage where they were locking into the threaded area for the screw.

No way I can re-use them now without some serious metal working.

vapb400 · Post by **vapb400** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:50 pm

stick a lever in between the tab on the outside and the edge of the pci slot and just push, thats how i get mine out.

Sgt_Strider · Post by **Sgt_Strider** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:07 pm

vapb400 wrote:stick a lever in between the tab on the outside and the edge of the pci slot and just push, thats how i get mine out.

Thanks! That did the trick.