i have a friend over atmo, and his comptuer has been playing up all night, restarting all the time and to start the comptuer he has to reset the bios, and it reset and when it turned on i herd a small bang, furtner investigation and following the path of smoke i found out that a small 3.2gb hdd's controller card blew, it was quite funny at the time until i realised that it was mine, i dont really care much concidering it was only a 3.2gb, the hdd was only their because his 120 is in the shop getting fixed, anyways here are the pics (sorry for the bad quality my camera is a cheap one Muse Velo 3610 it doesent like close up and it needs alot of light but its still a camera, its ment to be 5.5mp but it aint) you can see the core of the chip in there this is one with the small piece that blew off put back on that is the little chip that blew off
I seen that happen before. It was Quite interesting my boss got one of thoses cheap no name pc with Lindows on it. When i tried to install windows for him the drive just stopped working. Took in out the controler had metled. I also noted that the brand name on said GENERIC.
On an old K6-2 system, my IDE controller screwed and fried 3 HDDs in a row. Some lasted weeks, others 10 seconds. Maybe something similar happened to you.
Unlucky dude - these things seem to happen at the worst of times! I'd also go along with Kipman725 - if everything your friend did was correct then get that PSU checked out before it does the same to your mobo.
My mp3 collection would take 51 cd-rs to backup.. or 8 dvd-rs.. thats why theyre entrusted to my shiny new seagate
if you really want the contents of that HHD see f you can find a HDD with a similar size and swap the controller boards.....it should work as long asd the new board comes from a drive of the same size (preferably same make as well)
Ehm.... you need a board for the EXACT same drive since different brands and models have different number of platters, different data buses, other layout of the data etc. However, if the spindel motor and the controller IC on the reader arm are ok, finding an absolutely identical drive and swapping the board would work.
Yes I'm a musician with an extremely broad taste in music. Its handy that I can load up the whole collection in winamp and set it to shuffle, its just like a radio station.
The Smell of Burnt Silicon Don't you just love it when the top of a flat pack flies off, It always wonderful to turn on something or power up a circuit for the first time and hear (or not) tick tick POOF and a plume of smoke and the smell of burnt silicon. It's almost as nice as wiring Electrolytic Capacitors backwards and watch them explode and throw Capacitor confetti all over the room (Which is quite fun to do when you are bored and have lots of spare caps). But yeah, I'd check that PSU if I was you. This post reminded me of a moniter I had one time, Everytime I'd plug it in a computer it'd blow the Mobo. Not the video card, Or the moniter.. Just the Mobo. I checked everything in the world on that thing and could never figure it out. Wasted 3 Good 486 Mobos on that Moniter
