Hey guys. The PCB for my Seagate drive died recently. The problem that I'm having with this board is that one tiny part gets smoky each time I connect power supply to the drive (even killed one of my power supplies). I had hard time trying to get replacement board, so I was thinking if I can do some magic tricks and get that little think replaced. However, to do that, I need to know what it is. Anybody can give some definite answer? (see picture here http://mail.tut.by/kirylm/seagate72008board.jpg). If somebody can, then the second question would be: is is possible to buy this part? Or get part that performs same function, and just sold it in there, in place of the old one. Thanks for your help,

AND, by any chance if someone has Seagate ST3250823AS with fw 3.01 (PCB only or the whole drive, i mean for sale), please, let me know. P/N is 9Y7383-501. Thanks.

It's an overvoltage protector. Just remove it and recover your data. Make sure your PS is good before you do.

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Just remote it? The circuit won't be open?

You want that circuit open. It shorts when there is an overvoltage condition, and/or when it fails. It's failed.

it worked! thanks man!