SteelSeries Stratus Duo Mainboard Replacement

Use your fingers to remove the sticker located on the back cover of the Stratus Duo.

Use a Y0 Tri-point screwdriver to remove the five 9.3 mm-long screws securing the back cover.

Carefully lift the back cover assembly away from the frame and move it downward to uncover the battery cable and the interconnect cable at the top of the motherboard.

Using the pointed end of a spudger, push the grey tabs on the interconnect socket away from the socket, parallel to the interconnect cable, to release the cable.

Use a pair of blunt nosed tweezers or your fingers to pull the cable out of the socket.

Use a pair of blunt nose tweezers to grab and lift the connector away from the motherboard.

Remove the back cover assembly.

Use a Phillips screwdriver to remove the two 6.8 mm-long screws securing the thumbsticks board.

Grab the thumbsticks board with your hand and disconnect it by pulling it straight up and out of its socket on the mainboard.

Remove the thumbsticks board.

Use a Phillips screwdriver to remove the four 6.8 mm-long screws securing the mainboard assembly to the case.

Use your hand to remove the mainboard assembly by tilting it out of the plastic cover.

Use a Phillips screwdriver to remove the four 7.2 mm-long screws securing the trigger button covers to the mainboard.

Use your fingers to pull the trigger button covers off of their shoulder button breakout boards.

You are left with the mainboard.