Dmitry_Postrigan wrote:
Usually WDs are failing with visible damage. If there is no visible damage to any chip, then have to figure out by using multimeter (or oscilloscope sometimes). It is impossible to give "service manual" for doing this, you should be familiar with this process
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I still think that there are big chances that you can find proper drive for doing pcb swap.
ok, so i took off the logic board and there is a chip one of the corners that has visible damage to it. i can't read the numbers on it because it melted. i am looking for a new board right now, posting everywhere, asking everyone... apparently my drive is a special one that was made for dell, so the first half of the model number designates it as a 2mb cache, 100gb drive. the second half of the model number designates it as having a special edition 8mb cache. please check your drives if you have a 100gb wd drive! i would even pay to just rent your logic board from you! thanks!