My samsung hd103sj died after a hard reset of my computer. I have two other hard drives in the PC and they both are working correctly, the samsung fails to spin and causes errors if it is plugged in when booting.

I have tested and removed the TVS on the PCB and jumped the fuse. Still no results. Right now I'm looking to get a new PCB for this drive. I plan on performing the chip swap as well, my only concern is PCB compatiblity. I see model numbers for PCB's such as BF41-00314A 00 S3M Rev. 03 R00 and BF41-00303A 00. I'm just not sure which ones should be compatible.


I'll post some pictures of my hard drive for reference

http://i.imgur.com/eE289.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ttyAA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jFV5v.jpg

Thanks

Did you check all the TVS's ??

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I'm guess yes by there comment in the original post


Loki

Grammatically that means he tested and removed 1 TVS. Board looks like it has several TVS's. A matter of semantics perhaps. But I'd be sure to check them all.

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"Jumped the fuse"

Does that mean that you bridged the connection?

There are several diodes but only two TVS diodes.

@rayf937, the following PCB supplier offers a free "ROM" transfer service:
http://www.donordrives.com/services

Check this guide for PCB matching:
http://www.donordrives.com/blog/pcbswapguide

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