Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 80GB SATA - 6Y080M0 - PCB Board

[athanas]

At first many thanks for this great forum. It is really very very helpful!

I have a problem with a Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 80GB SATA - 6Y080M0

After reading a lot of posts in the forum I have come to the conclusion that I have to change the PCB Board.

The characteristics of my HDD are:

Code: YAR51BW0
Main Controller IC: 040111300(agere Ardent C8-C1)
HDD Motor Combo IC: L7250E 1.2
Board Number: 301520104
R5FYA

I have searched ebay and found a PCB Board with the same characteristics except code which is YAR51FW0
I know that this code declares the firmware version.

Are these two PCB boards compatible?
Is my HDD going to work (if the problem of hdd is actually the PCB) ?

Thanks!!!

[BlackST]

What was the original problem?

[athanas]

I was using this HDD to boot a windows XP OS.

Yesterday as windows loading a blue screen appeard for half a second and the system reboot.
The same thing was repeating. I tried to boot in safe mode, restore etc but always rebooting.

I thought it was a hardware problem so I open the pc case to take a look if any device had a problem.
Actually I unplugged and plugged again all the devices. When I tried to unplugged the hdd sata cable I noticed that the plastic part of the hdd's sata pinout has been broken into the sata's cable plug.

I tried to placed it again with the cable and to boot the OS but nothing. The BIOS recognized the HDD but till there. Windows didn't load.

I placed the hdd to another pc that boots from another hdd. The bios recognized the hdd but the windows freezed while was loading.

This is the whole situation.

[BlackST]

Probably while plugging/unplugging you damaged the connectors or they were already damaged. Either a repair or a new PCB could identify the problem. Does the drive calibrate when powered up ? If YES maybe the problem is in the connector area, if NO, either a PCB or firmware problem or both.

[athanas]

Ok, I got it. Thanks for your help.

As I wrote in my first post...

The characteristics of my HDD are:
Code: YAR51BW0
Main Controller IC: 040111300 (agere Ardent C8-C1)
HDD Motor Combo IC: L7250E 1.2
Board Number: 301520104
R5FYA

I have found the same board but the only difference is the firmware YAR51FW0 (F instead of B).

Is it compatible with mine?