OCZ Agility 3 Sandforce - Bricked?

[Vyker]

Hello,

I have an OCZ Agility 3 with 120GB that has failed. It won't show any signs of life. I've online that this uses the dreaded Sandforce controller.

I wanted to know if anyone knew of any methods to bring this back to life? I want to recover the data that's on there.

Here is what the PCB looks like:

[fzabkar]

Measure the supply voltages.

EN6337QI, Altera / Enpirion, 3A, 2.5V to 6.6V, PowerSoC DC-DC Step-Down Converter:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/ds/en6337qi_05800.pdf

[Vyker]

Just not experienced enough to translate that ask into action. I got my multimeter out and prodding the thing for a while, but just not sure how to translate the pin out diagram to reality.

If anyone can help with more novice advice, it'd be appreciated.

Thanks

[fzabkar]

You need to measure Vout (see datasheet). The test points would be at capacitors C27/C28 and C13/C14.

[HaQue]

put the black probe on a "Ground" ("-") location, and the red on whatever the datasheet says is a Vcc (+) connection. the value your multimeter says is the "reading". If you are told to measure at capacitors, then put the black probe on a "Ground" and red on the capacitor and report values.

a picture is useful, and example of a useful one looks like : https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40472&p=284692&hilit=can+you+measure+voltages#p284692