Please note that this board has a few oddities. First, the 2 little flat packs diagonal from eachother on the right side of the board came off when I removed the heatsinks, but they will be with the board when I cash it in. Second, the top broke off of one of those flat packs lol. Third, if you look you will notice a hole in the board on the right lower side. It was a Dallas chip. It was removed correctly with no damage to the chip. That chip is now in the hazardous waste bin! (PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE A DALLAS CHIP if you are not 1000% positive that you can remove it correctly! Throw the whole board in the hazardous waste!) And finally fourth, this board came with an attached flash mem card. I need the board graded and do you guys have a grade for the flash? Also, the battery has been removed from this board.

The flash card needs to be disassembled so that you just have the circuit board. Probably low or high telco depending on what's there.

I'm thinking high peripheral on the large board.

As for the Dallas box, those are pretty sturdy and usually contain a coin cell battery, which are also pretty sturdy on their own. Should be no problem to slide a flat head screwdriver under the short side and pry the whole box up and it'll save you from having circuit board dust in the air you're breathing.

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I also se another battery that is about an inch away from the ram slots that should be removed.

malphorian said he removed it at the very end of his post.

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I guess I didn't read it carefully enough. :(

I forgot to post this pic with the original post. It is of the 2 white connectors at the bottom right of the board. (The small connector and the large connector) they both have huge gold pins in them. I need to know if they affect the grade of the board because if they don't I am going to remove them and collect those pins! ;)

Oh and FYI, when I do work such as the removal of components and things like that I always have my dust collection system on and I wear a ventilator. Safety first people! :)

I assumed that those connectors had gold pins. I'm not sure if removing those would drop the grade myself but it might. As Chris/Boardsort said in another post, they advise not to remove any gold from a board.

Yay ventilation!

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The board could probably still get High Grade Peripheral with the connector removed, but it's probably not worth the risk of getting downgraded.