Introduzione
The IO board hosts all of the ports on your Mac Pro: Thunderbolt, USB, 3.5 mm speaker and headphone jacks, Ethernet ports, and HDMI. Use this guide to replace the IO board.
Before beginning any work on your Mac Pro: Unplug the computer and press and hold the power button for ten seconds to discharge the power supply's capacitors.
Be very careful not to touch the capacitor leads or any exposed solder joints on the back of the power supply. Only handle the board by the edges.
Cosa ti serve
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Remove five 5.1 mm T10 Torx screws from around the outer perimeter of the fan assembly.
Fat Mango is correct. That said. If you do pull the fan assembly note that the screws are all held in with blue Permatex and breaking them free takes a fair amount of effort. Getting a good set of Torx screwdrivers is a must.
Hey guys, what would happen if you only replace one card.. I have a D300 but the plan is to upgrade to D500 or D600. So If I can afford and install one instead of the pair would it increase something? or will it cause any conflict? I guess I don’t understand if I the Mac Pro has 2 D300 graphic cards that means each has 1GB? Same as If I would Install 1 D600 that would increase 3GB only? Thanks.
D300 = 2GB each card. Very few apps uses two cards at the same time.
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The (5) Screws are Apple part number 923-0713
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While supporting the fan assembly with one hand, loosen the two T8 captive screws in the fan cable bracket.
On my machine, a TR7 worked to remove them due to the weird angle.
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Remove five 5.1 mm T10 Torx screws from the outer perimeter of the lower case.
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Use the flat end of a spudger and a twisting motion to gently separate one side of the graphics card data connection.
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Remove the two 6.0 mm T8 Torx screws securing the interconnect board to the heat sink.
Ended up being T9 screws for me.
T8 screws for me, i did and edit to this step
Ended up being T15 screws on my machine
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Flip the Mac Pro back over and set it gently on a flat surface.
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Use the flat end of a spudger to disconnect the power supply DC-Out connector from its socket on the IO board.
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Use the tip of a spudger to disconnect the power supply data cable from its socket on the IO board.
Need to add T9 Torx Screwdriver to list of tools at the beginning of this article.
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Remove the four 9.0 mm silver T10 Torx screws from the sides of the power supply.
awesome. thank you for the tip!!
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Remove the two 9 mm silver T10 Torx screws securing the IO Board to the IO shield.
On reassembly, before tightening these 2 9.0mm T10s, make sure the other 4 holes line up. Otherwise you might be setting yourself up for cross threading the 4 remaining 9.0 mm T10 that are already in a bad spot for torquing.
Might not be a bad idea to put the other 4 halfway in to be sure no resistance, then tighten the 2 in this step, then remove the other 4.
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Use the tip of a spudger to flip the retaining flap on the IO shield ribbon cable ZIF connector.
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Disconnect the IO shield ribbon cable.
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Squeeze and pull the audio jack ribbon cable connector from the IO board.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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3 Commenti
How do you even get the a t10 to fit a such an aggressive angle?
My USB ports don’t work.. I replaced this board and they still don’t work.. Suggestions as to what could be causing this?
I’m having a severe problem with the data cable the runs from the power supply to the IO board. First, I broke a couple of the pins, so I had to order a new IO board. Now the pins are slightly different. Before, they were just sitting out unprotected, but the new board I purchased has a type of barrier around it, but my data cable won’t fit onto the pins now with the new protective barriers. Please help!