I’ve noticed recently that my expansion bay (non-gpu) will move a bit when I’m grabbing my 16 out of my backpack; when I flip the laptop over and press down on the front corners of the expansion bay, it will move in and out a bit and one side makes an audible creek when pressed.
This annoyed me.
So, I spent the morning figuring out how to make this area firm. I ended up settling on shimming the bottom of the little nubs at the front of the expansion bay using some offcuts of a dbrand skin. I used two layers on the outside nubs and one layer on the inside nubs. The inside shims probably weren’t needed since they are next to the support screws, but I didn’t think about that until after it was installed.
Anyway, after shimming and reassembling, the expansion bay now feels firm, like it’s part of the whole chasis instead of and additional part.
Anyway, I thought y’all might want to know this is possible if you have the same problem and it bothers you, as well as to see if anyone has experienced the same.
P.S. Some orientation notes: front/back/top/bottom are referring to the orientation of the expansion bay when installed in the 16 and in normal use, thus the “back” is where any connectors would be if there were any, the “front” is where the internal pcie connector is, the “bottom” is the outside metal part of the case and the “top” is where the fans and expansion board are.