Well, I'll asume you're up to the stage where you've popped the top of your box off, have removed the DVD-Drive and Hard drive from their locations and are starting at a motherboard. (You don't have to move your dvd drive, I just found it easier to do so.)

I noticed when I was looking for how to do this, that there always seemed to be a step missing. Everyone's saying "just use a bit more force" - I didn't like that idea; it's plastic, force isn't too great on it. So I pulled out my trusty plastic torch (which is pretty damn dodgy, but that's another story) and had a look at either edge. It wasn't too hard to get the tabs out, but the left and right sides just didn't want to budge. I took a look, and sure enough, there were 3 tabs on each side connecting the front panel to the base (at the side though). I quickly jammed a screwdriver in there and popped them out 2 at a time and it came off in about a minute. Rather than using force, like people proposed, I simply popped it off effortlessly. With the tabs gone, your front panel comes straight off without having to worry about the ones down the bottom.


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My explaination isn't that great, because everything sort of doubles over, but I'll post a picture of the tabs I'm talking about - that you need to prise(sp?) off first.