[MikePA]

Well, in case you were wondering, the wireless card must be removed to be able to even tilt the motherboard up to replace the RAM.

I was going to upgrade the RAM this morning and I could not get the screw out that was holding the wireless card in. Oh well, I thought, maybe it's not necessary to remove it. I did the rest of the disassembling process only to find out it is. So, now I will be reading through all the posts about ways to remove a stripped screw.

Well, it was a good exercise to learn how to disassemble and reassemble a 10v...Yeah right.

EDIT: See my last post. It is NOT NECESSARY to remove the wireless card to install memory.

[jaraeez]

Interesting as I thought the same & could only remove one screw though when I got to the motherboard I was able to tilt it in such a way that I managed to replace the memory - can't remember exactly what I did but definitely didn't/couldn't remove the wireless card -

[MikePA]

My wireless card only had one screw and by not removing it meant the lower, left part of the motherboard near the mini card reader was 'stuck'. I couldn't bend the motherboard up enough to access the memory card. At least not bend it enough that I felt comfortable doing.

[anguish]

I had to remove mine too when I got the new 10v. I tried not removing it but didn't have any luck. I think though the issue was with the antenna wires, but it may also have been the card couldn't make it past a particular obstruction. (I'm hazy on the details at the moment.)

[MikePA]

Both of the wires seemed loose and I couldn't determine what the motherboard was hanging up on. Although, the card didn't seem attached to anything but the motherboard (once the wires were detached) so it was a bit of a mystery.

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Now the thread title is wrong.

You do not need to take the wireless card out to remove the motherboard.

There's a metal stand off very close to the edge of the case where the mini reader is. That's what was holding the motherboard in place. It was a very tight fit between the motherboard, the mini card reader and the edge of the case.

Now happily running with 2 gigs. I'll be doing this again once the internal BT card arrives.

[anguish]

Glad to hear you got it. I didn't look too much when I put the 2 GB in my new one.

For the BT module, all you should have to do is just pop the trackpad cover off. I don't think you even need to take they keyboard off. Unless you're doing something other than a stock OEM module.

[MikePA]

It's a stock BT module and thanks for the heads up regarding what needs removed. Since it's coming from China it will be a while, so I decided to install the 500 gig drive I have and use your guide for triple booting and install Win7 and OSX 10.6.1.

[anguish]

Keep updated on it, as I saw your other post. I just got back from the hospital with my son (he's okay, ugly case of croup), so I'm finally catching up on everything.

[MikePA]

Well, zero success on setting up dual boot with OSX and Win7.

OSX install goes fine. Win7 installs fine. Reinstall of the bootloader goes fine. When I reboot from the Win7 USB, I set the Win7 partition as active and trying to boot from it results in the expected 0xc000000e error.

When I boot from the Win7 USB, there's no Repair Your Computer option on the second screen. I get the first screen (language selection), then the Agreement screen, then the third screen is where you select the partition. If I select the Win7 partition, the installation starts all over again. Any ideas?

[anguish]

That's odd. What version are you using? RTM?