So, here wh have the RF modulator on an A1200 motherboard. We will get rid of it, mostly because I'll never use it but to allow us to install future HDMI…
Notice the 3 pins at the back of the RF modulator. From a first look, that's the only contact you can see between the RF module and the motherboard, but we know…
In the bottom picture, you can see an outline drawn that markse the placement of the RF module when looking at the bottom of the A1200 motherboard.
Here we take a closer look at the area of the A1200 mobo where the RF module is. The 3 red circles and the yellow oval mark the 6 contact points we need to…
Now we are zoomed in at a small portion of the A1200 motherboard. Here you can see the 3 small pins in the lower part of the image (just below the E232C). These…
Zoomed in at the edge of the A1200 mobo. The arrow points at one of the 3 fat pins. Here you can see it's beginning to move downwards.
Close up of the A1200 RF module starting to come off. Blue arrow shows one of the 3 fat pins. We need to pill the module in the direction of the red arrows, but…
Another look at the RF module coming of a A1200 mobo. Here I use a small screw driver to push the module away from the motherboard while heating the soldering…
The A1200 RF modulator module is starting to come off and here you can see that all 3 fat pins have come loose (turcose arrows). We pull in the direction of the…
Voila, the RF modulator has been completely removed from the A1200 motherboard.
And this is what the A1200 mobo looks like from the bottom with RF module removed and mobo cleaned up a bit around the soldering holes.
Here is the RF modulator removed from the A1200, still quite intact.
Here is the RF modulator removed from the A1200, seen from a different angle. I didn't bend any of the pins too much, so if we wanted to, it would be easy to…
