Bill_MI
Bill In Michigan
Premium,MVM
join:2001-01-03
Royal Oak, MI
 ·Comcast
| reply to Compman21
Re: How do i open a Linksys Router
Well I like to help those that like to open things.  ...
Is this a BEFSR11? On the sides there's a vertical seam that should be 2 different colors (Blue/Black?). The trick it to pry apart at this seam to pop the front off - it's a slick design. |
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Compman21
join:2001-08-09
Lockport, IL
| Yeah i got my 1 port open but then decieded hell with it and popped open my 4port router to discover my problem with it (A Compacitor had been blow up)... I wondered what was ratteling around in there..heh..So im going to try and get a compacider and stick redo the whole thing, maybe add more rom to it heh hell while im at it i should try somehow getting my pent 300 chip on this board somehow to make the router faster :P |
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Bill_MI
Bill In Michigan
Premium,MVM
join:2001-01-03
Royal Oak, MI
·Comcast
| Aw... sounds like you left the active material out of that "compacitator". Don't tell anyone but us engineers only package smoke in them things. The unit works fine until you let the smoke out of those packages then it's broken. 
Pictures? If you've seen one Samsung processor with an ARM7 core and a bunch of peripherals you've seen 'em all. |
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JrC384k
join:2000-09-24
Chicago, IL
clubs: | reply to Bill_MI
Will this break it? I have a hub that I don't use and is still functional. I wanna take it apart but I don't wanna break it.
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If it ain't broke, I'll fix that! |
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Link Logger
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
Calgary, AB
·Shaw
| reply to Bill_MI
Gosh whoever would have guessed that Bill would know how to remove the cover!?!? I'm betting covers don't last long at your place Bill before you have taken things apart and rebuilt them.
Bill you remind me of a research dude I once knew who covers rarely made it past his living room when he brought stuff into his house (no lie he had empty covers, boxes etc all over his living room, needless to say he was single as his living room was little more then a preliminary disassembly area). Nothing electronic in his house had a cover on it and usually everything had been improved by customizing as well. Most of his stuff he had, he built from scratch (meaning built his own circuit boards on up) as well (Stereos, Computers, Testing Equipment, Creations etc). The guy was truly amazing.
Blake
[text was edited by author 2002-07-04 03:07:28] |
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JrC384k
join:2000-09-24
Chicago, IL
clubs:
| I like to take stuff apart too. The Linksys boggled me since there were no screws. I didn't wanna rip the little rubber feet off to look for screws since that would show I tampered with it. I didn't wanna pull the two top halves apart because I was afraid I would break it (note that if I did do that, it would have been broken). I never would have thought to do that. Once I did as Bill said, it all fell into place.
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If it ain't broke, I'll fix that! |
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Bill_MI
Bill In Michigan
Premium,MVM
join:2001-01-03
Royal Oak, MI
·Comcast
| Whoa... what did I start here? LOL!
Jr, that must be a V2 since it has 1 board. My early-V1 is a few months over 2 years old now and has 2 boards with a tin-post connector between them. The processors are the same. Hey.... your FLASH isn't in a socket is it? (the square chip with the label). That would make it harder to self-recover from corrupted firmware.
BTW, you're good if you didn't leave *any* tool marks. I wasn't that meticulous. 
[text was edited by author 2002-07-04 07:59:42] |
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JrC384k
join:2000-09-24
Chicago, IL
clubs:
| Uh...I mentioned above that it was a broken hub. I don't use it anymore but I bust it out every now and then for a LAN party. No tool marks here. I didn't even have to pry the front off. I just grabbed it by the legs and pulled.
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If it ain't broke, I'll fix that! |
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Bill_MI
Bill In Michigan
Premium,MVM
join:2001-01-03
Royal Oak, MI | Duh!!! That's Compman's V2!!! Sorry 'bout that confooosion of mine. |
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Compman21
join:2001-08-09
Lockport, IL
| Last better pic of the broken capacitor |
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Compman21
join:2001-08-09
Lockport, IL | Ah and yes to answer a email i got from someone on the boards..yes the red wan light was on that was its final "red flag" now all it does it look like a light show and nothing more lol. |
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