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Snap the antenna boards back into their respective posts.
Tape the upper right antenna cable to the side of the internal framework (circled in green).
Route the bottom left antenna cable through the guides on the internal framework (marked in yellow).
Connect the orange ribbon cable from the interconnect board to the sound card (indicated in red).
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To connect the new hard drive, we need to modify some cables.
The hard drive has a standard 15 pin SATA power connection, but the logic board has a 6 pin slim SATA power connection. A cable to connect them doesn't exist (yet), so we're going to make one.
The two cables you need are:
15 pin SATA power to 4 pin Molex power.
6 pin SATA power to 4 pin Molex power.
We tried a Molex adapter to connect the two (male) power cables together. However, the bulky Molex connectors are difficult to fit inside the mini.
Cut the white Molex connectors off both cables. The excess cable has to fit inside the Mini, so just leave 3-4" on each cable.
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Strip half an inch of insulation from the end of each wire.
Connect each loose wire with the matching color wire on the other cable. Red-red, black-black, yellow-yellow, black-black.
To our knowledge, both black wires are ground, so just make sure you have black to black.
Tightly twist each pair of wires together.
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