Oh god, this keeps happening to me. I've had so many hardware problems recently, taking up all my time and money...
I'll tell you the entire story.
I have a fan on the front of the computer (quite small) that often makes alot of noise. So everytime it makes this sound, I press down on the casing or nudge it (or slap it), and it quitens down.
For the past 2-3 days though it's been EXTREMELY loud, and it's unstoppable.
A nudge shuts it up for a minute or 2, and then it starts up again. It's incredibly annoying...
So I decided to do something about it.
It's a small fan, it appears to only cool down my 2 harddrives and nothing else, so I thought I'd remove it.
Attached to the fan is a black wire and a red wire. I followed these wires back to the source. The 2 wires were seemingly forced into 2 of one the 4 pin harddrive cables (wires:red black black yellow, white plug).
[I should mention here that my computer was built by a specialist and purchased on eBay.]
I saw this and thought to my self "Easy!"
I pulled the 2 wires out and removed the fan from the casing.
When I started up the computer, everything seemed fine. No more noise!
Then I realised my 2nd harddrive wasn't showing up.
500GB of music, software and work. Important work....
I put my hand to the harddrive as the computer casing was still open. Nothing.
It's COMPLETELY unresponsive.
I look at the BIOs, it's not recognised.
I tried it in another computer. Nothing. No whirring, no sound.
If you think you've been unlucky with hardware recently, just look at my recent history....
In the past 2 months, I've had 2 harddrive failures (of different kinds) a PS3 has died, an Ipod Touch has died AND I had a serious virus affect my computer, eventually leading to a fix that took ages...
(and about 6 months ago, an external harddrive which I used for backing up died. Does nothing now but whir and click upon start up)
I can only imagine I burnt the harddrive's board out or something from doing something with the fan.
I had shut off the power when i removed it, but I was pretty hastey in pulling out those 2 wires, and i believe I might have heard a little buzz of electricity.
Any help will be MUCH appreciated.
-Tom
------Edit------
I've been doing some research since, and I believe my problem may be solved if I replaced the controller board with a working one.
I think that is where the problem lies (however, i never smelt a burnt component, which most people would if the board were burnt out)
Now here lies another problem.
Here's a link to the amazon page of the harddrive I purchased a year ago.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...ef=oss_productMy harddrive is western digital:
WD Caviar SE16
MDL: WD5000AAKS-00TMA00
DATE: 07 AUG 2007
DCM: DHNCHV2CHB
PCB: 2061 701477 900 04P
However the amazon page shows hardly any details, and i believe sells 500GB refurbished harddrives of various make...
First I would like clarifcation on if I'm heading in the right direction.
If so, where can I find a controller board for my harddrive OR the exact same harddrive???
Could I possibly get one from this forum?
I am so desperately in need of help, anything will do...
Techguys.com and Techsupportforum.com are lousy, I hope you guys can prove yourselves more helpful.
Please help. My data on that drive is my livelihood.
-Tom