Hello again all, I have removed the TVS diode off the board using a pair of tweezers and a soldering iron. Prior to this, my multimeter was detecting a short on the TVS, which it is now not doing. What is the next step, should I connect the PCB back to the Disk or should I power on the PCB standalone to see if anything "fries"?
I watched Steve's video on removing the TVS but his multimeter had different settings to mine, so I just used the setting that makes the multimeter beep if there is a complete circuit.
It may be worth noting that before posting here, I connected Disk 1 to a computer and now that computer will not boot, but that isn't the point.
If a test of the PCB is needed, can you show me what pins I will need to test with the multimeter? This will be a bit harder to do since the only way I can power up the PCB is using a 3.5 HDD dock and the PCB will be halfway in the dock, see below:
If a test is not needed, then is it safe to just pop the PCB back on Disk 1 and plug it in?
See below the picture of the TVS after it was removed:
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Thank you, everyone, for the support so far!