Sorry, no, i don't say that because want to see burned chips.
I am thinked about bad soldering, and additionals caused by bad soldering....

The only interesting is in your meassage is the clicking noise.

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Janos

Oh right right right. Ya the soldering job isn't the best, but I was pretty carefull not to make any connections that were't supposed to be there. As far as I can gather there isn't any visable damage done by the soldering.

As for the "clicking noise" - I made a mistake in posting that. What I head was the electric "trigger" on my HDD Enclosure trying to power the drive on. When i moved the drive in to a regular desktop PC, there was no clik at all. In fact it sounded as good as the day I bought it one year ago.


So from what I'm reading, even if I do swap out the PCB for one with the same firmware, I'll need to swap out a chip or two on the PCB? I dont know if I'd be able to do that...

U can get an exact match as well .

So in other words, the exact match that you have, should not need to be modified at all? (assuming replacing the PCB solves my problem)

Yes .

It's the other 8-leg chip...can't remember what is written on it right now..

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Hi ,
You Can change the Whole connector ,If You Wanna Do That Say it I will Teach you Right Here .

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I beleive it was tricky question
This PCB have only ROM and no NVRAM chip (Some Seagates' PCBs have even no ROM chip - on such PCBs ROM is inside MCU)

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