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  • With the black plastic covers off, we can see all the screw holes. Most of the screws are out by now, but once the rest of them are out, you can lift off the logic board cover.

  • Note that at least one part is thermal padded to the logic board cover. You might have to replace this thermal pad, but I didn't. I just pushed them back together. Oh well!

  • Remove any remaining screws in the logic board cover.

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  • Once all screws are removed, lift off the logic board cover.

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  • Look around.

  • This is the thermal padding.

  • We opted not to remove the heat sink from the logic board, but it certainly could be removed.

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  • Take some more awesome photos.

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  • And take a couple more photos.

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  • We stopped there.

  • A muffin tin worked really well to organize all the screws.

  • Putting the Wii back together took only about half an hour, and it works perfectly. We improved Nintendo's design by three or four screws and one square nut, but worsened their design by one piece of duct tape (to hold in the bios battery).

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