pepe wrote:
yeah, it looks like your posts appear apparently randomly between ours
search for something like 'seagate terminal connection', you will need an 1.8V USB to serial adapter for that. I think this matter is negotiated in details on this forum in plenty of posts.
that black thing is not a capacitor, it is a resistor. The discolouring you mentioned looks like something got on its surface rather than a sign of burning.
i still don't give it too much chance as being the cause of your headache.
Terminal log, please
pepe
What are u talking about is the TTL to usb perhaps ?
Using putty with a baud i will be able to read the terminal log thats u are talking about ?
If yes i have to find it somewhere laying around somewhere.
Anyhow , i have looked into burned smd and they look almost the same.
Note that , after the "pop" it turned all black , i guess burned completely.
It was not colored.
In anycase i have purchased 2 (incase i fuck up 1) board with the same id so i can take out the resistor and swap it .
Since i didn't knew its value so i bought the board, safest bet.
I do want to fully diy it , this why i am here.
I dont have 1k$ to spend , and the data is not worth 1k.
I do think this forum came to be to help diy people like ourself .
It is to easy to send it over , i dont learn anything from letting a shop do it.
On top of that they wont teach me anything.
One of the reason i am here is to learn .
Anyhow i will do some searching about the terminal thingy , and update you guys about the operation of swapping the tiny resistor
Which might take couple of weeks until they arrive
By the way , after the pop, i have decided to plug it one more time ,
It turn on, hearing the disk spin , heads moving, getting recognized (by windows sound), but no partion shows up after couple of sec 30~ the hdd turns off and back on
When it turns off u can hear the heads quite loudly because of the stop