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st3250310as PCB fried ..

August 5th, 2013, 19:23

good evening ,

i had this maxtor diamond max 21 ,,st3250310as with fried pcb ..

i found a donor drive seagate 7200.10 st3250310as

the patient ( and the donor) doesn't seem to have a flash component to be transferred , when the pcbs are swapped , the patient identify correctly , but at very high latency , and imaging is almost way to slow ..

any ideas ?

the photo is taken for the donor PCb , the patient one is just identical , but with burn spot near the crystal , and no way to reuse it ..

thank you
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Re: st3250310as PCB fried ..

August 5th, 2013, 20:14

Try cleaning the pcb.
HSA and spindle contacts seem to be full of oxidation, you can use a pencil eraser to clean those.

Re: st3250310as PCB fried ..

August 5th, 2013, 21:26

raven4d wrote:the photo is taken for the donor PCb , the patient one is just identical , but with burn spot near the crystal , and no way to reuse it ..

Unless there is a hole in the PCB, then it should be repairable ... if the damage is what I think it is.

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/ST ... S_wire.jpg

Re: st3250310as PCB fried ..

August 6th, 2013, 17:19

tried cleaning up the contacts , same effect ..

acutally the burn mark is just like the one in your photo Frank , who r u ? the PCBs God ? :shock:

but the MCU has a burn mark too , + user "that i think never used a hot air soldering system " has removed the regulator near the cach chip ... the pcb is a total wast to try to repair .. :|

any ideas ? thank you very much
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