Internal Components and Assembly

To get access to the heart of the system you undo just one screw:

…and extract the chassis:

The chassis carries all system components: the mainboard and the PSU and a separate PCB that has audio sockets and USB ports you see at the front panel. The PCMCIA controller and the optical drive of the slim form-factor can be installed into the landing places at the back side of the chassis. The hard disk drive of the 2.5” form-factor is installed onto the metal plate that stands on poles above the mainboard:

The Gigabyte TA2 uses Gigabyte’s own mainboard, rather than one of the standard EPIA platforms. Anyway, this mainboard has VIA’s components on it.