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seagate crashed. question about PCP/firmware. please help

 
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desperate dude
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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:52 pm    Post subject: seagate crashed. question about PCP/firmware. please help Reply with quote

hi. i have a Seagate that wouln't run anymore, so i bought it to the pc shop to repair (i dont know anything about hardware).
after paying 40 bucks and waiting around a week they told me the harddisc broke. they tried it in an extern station and couldnt make it run. that's the only thing they could try they told me.

i have a fractured rib, and have to sit around the house for two weeks.. so found this site, and read the sucesful story on the mainpage and got excited!

before i wanted to join the club here i tried to connect the usb and power cable again though, just hoping it would work again.. and a little smoke started going out of it!
firmware/systemboard literally fried, right?

this disc is about 2 years old. it has data from a crashed computer, songs i made, lots of travel pictures, movies, old songs, documents, yadda yadda... ten years of stuff are on this thing. so i want to fix this Seagate Barracuda disc really bad.

what i learnt (and please correct me if i'm wrong), is that if i find another systemboard (which is the green plate attached to the harddisc) with the same firmware type/number, and screw it gently on my Seagate harddisc it MIGHT run again?

i asked on another pc forum and someone told me the chance that it will work again with this method is little..

i'm willing to pay a lot for printboard which has the firmware that matches my disc. firmware: SD35.

anyone here got luck by screwing on a new printboard, and has tips ?

english is not my first language as you may have noticed, i'm from belgium.

thanks!

desperate dude.

ps:

here's an unclear picture of my baby:


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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi,
i have this kind of PCB for sell. but for your case sees no only PCB problem. may be it got seized platters or damager motor. please contact me by email or MSN. i can handle it. thanks.
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fzabkar
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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2010 12:00 am    Post subject: Shorted TVS diode Reply with quote

The smoke would suggest that you have a shorted TVS diode. This is a very simple DIY fix.

If you upload a detailed photo of the component side of the PCB, the solution may be as simple as removing the shorted component with flush cutters.

Good luck.
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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2010 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

We have this working PCB in stock too, pls contact my hotmail.

Thanks
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desperate dude
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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2010 1:30 pm    Post subject: Re: Shorted TVS diode Reply with quote

fzabkar wrote:
The smoke would suggest that you have a shorted TVS diode. This is a very simple DIY fix.

If you upload a detailed photo of the component side of the PCB, the solution may be as simple as removing the shorted component with flush cutters.

Good luck.


by the component side you mean the pàrt where input is for the usb and powercable ? i will try to make a high detailed picture of it.

i remember using the harddisc a lot lately, and it was spinning for a whole night the day before... i know harddiscs are normally resistant , but this could have been the reason the board fried?

it just went dead one day, i didnt move it.. just used it a lot the days before (backing up the data of a computer that was crashing, ironically).
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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2010 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You have to remove a PCB from your drive and take a very good picture of the side were all microchips are visible.
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desperate dude
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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2010 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm afraid of removing the PCB, isn't the harddisc very very sensitive for damages once the PCB is removed?...

either way here are better pictures of the seagate disc:





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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2010 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't be afraid of removing PCB, nothing is going to happen to your drive.
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