WD5000AAJS WD CAVIAR SE Drive suddenly died.

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Re: WD5000AAJS WD CAVIAR SE Drive suddenly died.

December 23rd, 2013, 14:14

I did apply flux to the ic's and then used a soldering iron to see if it was dry joints. Thats the first thing i did.
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Re: WD5000AAJS WD CAVIAR SE Drive suddenly died.

December 23rd, 2013, 15:19

Bingo... :mrgreen:

The problem, in any case, is elsewhere.
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Re: WD5000AAJS WD CAVIAR SE Drive suddenly died.

December 23rd, 2013, 18:28

Whys it bingo?

The fault was as described, The drive started getting better as I cleaned the board up and re soldered the pins on the ic's

If the drive is not detected by the bios to me indicates a pcb fault no? Either something has died due to heat or the solder has become dry or cracked..

Correct me if im wrong.
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Re: WD5000AAJS WD CAVIAR SE Drive suddenly died.

December 23rd, 2013, 19:49

atomical wrote:If the drive is not detected by the bios to me indicates a pcb fault no?

In most cases, if a drive spins up but is not detected, then the fault is internal, either a head/media fault, or a damaged firmware module. Your PCB is a well known exception in that its Marvell MCU often fails in such a way that mimics a head fault.
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Re: WD5000AAJS WD CAVIAR SE Drive suddenly died.

December 24th, 2013, 1:24

atomical wrote:Whys it bingo?

The fault was as described, The drive started getting better as I cleaned the board up and re soldered the pins on the ic's

If the drive is not detected by the bios to me indicates a pcb fault no? Either something has died due to heat or the solder has become dry or cracked..

Correct me if im wrong.

In this case to me it is another story, but only a diagnose can tell.

P.S. the story about the MCU that makes the drive act as it has a head fault happened to me only less than 10 times in several thousands similar drives processed and there were also other problems. On 2 , only the read channel was affected and the rest was operational, only on 2/3 it has been possible to restore functionality but no data was needed , refurb only (don't know after many years if the drive is still on). These are my stats.
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Re: WD5000AAJS WD CAVIAR SE Drive suddenly died.

January 5th, 2014, 17:53

Thanks for the offer Spildit. A little too far to send over but thanks any way.
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Re: WD5000AAJS WD CAVIAR SE Drive suddenly died.

January 16th, 2014, 19:03

Does anyone have the firmware and rom for this drive?

WD5000AAJS - 32YFA0
The PCB board rev is 2061-701477-900 04P XW 4V05 C8AR 4 0005030 8035

Not fussed if i mess it up as I had a back up of the photos so just want to see if I can recover anything myself. Have a play ;)
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