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Topic: Question: WD Recovery - U12 Chip Swap |
atlcr
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Forum: General chat Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:04 pm Subject: Question: WD Recovery - U12 Chip Swap |
Dangit...I just noticed that I didn't clean the solder off the tracers on the PCB well enough. I suppose that could definitely cause this problem. |
Topic: Question: WD Recovery - U12 Chip Swap |
atlcr
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Forum: General chat Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:51 pm Subject: Question: WD Recovery - U12 Chip Swap |
Well, you'll get a kick out of this picture.
I took the PCB off to take the photos, and it was a disaster. Apparently, something went wrong, overheated, and then melted the foam backing onto the U1 ... |
Topic: Question: WD Recovery - U12 Chip Swap |
atlcr
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Forum: General chat Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:27 am Subject: Question: WD Recovery - U12 Chip Swap |
I'm trying to recover a drive from WD (1600BB) for a friend.
When I initially plugged it in, there was no spin up or sound of any kind. I finally found, on ebay, a replacement PCB to put on the bad ... |
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