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I shall amend that to "at one time, the sdram had 3.3v" Embarassed

I didn't see smoke, but I must've...

If and when I go to the new board, it'll be with a sewing needle taped to the end of the pr ...

again, thanks for the reply.

Clearly, I was hoping for an easy plug and play solution.

Digging into the board and replacing parts may be the path I need to take. The transistor near the M is go ...

new board arrived - manufactured the same month...

swaping it was good news - bad news... the board spun up and looks to the SA - making a clicking pattern - 2 - 2 - 1 - repeat.

so the heads are ...

Does the drive feel or sound like it is trying to spin up? If so, then you could have a stiction problem.

no... it's not giving me any indication of trying to start spinning.

My uninformed spec ...

another question concerns the microcode... would this drive shut down, not spin and not be recognized by bios if there was corruption of the info?

There was a second ata drive in the computer that ...

If you don't have a multimeter, then how did you measure the resistance?

The ROM is internal to the Marvell MCU (big "M").

Thanks for the reply.

my bad... I meant digital multimeter. I hav ...

Reasonably intelligent, yet woefully ignorant would be data recovery hack here. I'm in no hurry, but would like to retreive data from this disk. No, it's not worth the cost of professional service.
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