Someone Brute-forced a motherboard standoff into one of my Advanced/ML's parallel port and it's bent. \ VOGONS

Someone Brute-forced a motherboard standoff into one of my Advanced/ML's parallel port and it's bent.

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First post, by Windows9566

Posted on 2020-01-21, 02:18

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I have a intel Advanced/ML that i ordered off ebay but i noticed something strange, part of the parallel port is bent and it can't fit in any cases, it turns out that there's a brass standoff screw brute-forced into there and it's a PITA to remove. any tips of removal? it still POSTs though and boots to DOS and Windows.

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Reply 1 of 4, by Horun

Posted on 2020-01-21, 03:29

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A picture would help. Offering advice without seeing it would be foolish on my part. Vise-Grips always work for me 😁

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Reply 2 of 4, by maxtherabbit

Posted on 2020-01-21, 03:50

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yeah pics would be nice. my gut says: brute force in, brute force out

Reply 3 of 4, by candle_86

Posted on 2020-01-21, 03:51

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Little wd40 should make it move

Reply 4 of 4, by Windows9566

Posted on 2020-01-21, 05:55

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i just bent the parallel port back into shape with pliers and it finally fits into the ATX case fine. i just didn't bother and made do with that brass stand-off.

heres a pic, the brass stand-off is on the bottom of the parallel port on the picture and theres a bit of a bend.

It currently has a
Pentium 100 MHz
32 MB EDO RAM
S3 Trio 64v+ 2MB Video Card
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 CT1600
3Com Etherlink PCI Ethernet Card
Maxtor 20GB HDD
DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11

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