Broken pin on HD
My new Coolermaster case arrived today - Yay! Unfortunately cos of the rush of changing cases and all, I broke something. It happened to be a pin on my hard drive
I broke pin 21, the one above and to the left of 20? and its a drq3 pin? I tried booting the system up with the drive but it gets to the loading winXP screen and stays there. Can the drive be fixed? Thanks.
Last edited by Dragonb4llz; 09-01-2004 at 09:09 PM.
lob a new pin in there using skills of tweezers or something
ehhhh..... maybe something less..... diy ish
The only way (that I can think) of doing what you ask - "less DIY ish" is to desolder whats left of the offending pin, obtain a good one from a faulty drive and then solder that in.
Put a pin in the relevant connector on the IDE cable so that it meets with what has snapped off - if possible.
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Doh. Well Im sure my soldering skills are still with me from 3rd year electronics
Wish me luck.
The dry contact will make it all too dodgy IMO.Originally Posted by unts
True - but it's the easiest thing to try before he goes attacking the IDE controller on his HDD with a soldering iron.
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I don't disagree, but I think KeZZeR suggested something similar and it was dismissed - given that the drive is now most likely devoid of warranty I think its a worth shot, and since the OP is a skilled with soldering I would expect it to be straight forward.
Way I see it the drive's knackered anyway so he has nothing to lose with an attempted repair.
Good luck Dragon.
K Ill try putting a pin in the cable and see how it works. If not then Ill start 'attacking' my HD with the soldering iron. Anyways thanks a lot.
How did it go?
You could have brought a IDC PCB Header Plug (2*20 pin!)
at Maplin or from CPC or anyother electronics store and replace the whole connector.
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Though if Dragonb4llz is still here, I'd be interested to see what happened.
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