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 Post subject: WD PCB question
PostPosted: August 20th, 2009, 10:46 
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Location: Dayton, OH
I have a Western Digital hard drive that has stopped working. I "think" it's the PCB that's fried.

The drive won't spin up, just sits there - no signs of life at all.

I'm considering swapping out the PCB to see if that helps. Question is - WHERE does one go to find PCB's for WD drives???????

Thanks for any advise!

MODEL: WD2500AAJS-6684AD


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 Post subject: Re: WD PCB question
PostPosted: August 20th, 2009, 11:02 
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Unlike older WD models, you can't just swap out PCBs on these models because critical specific information is contained on a chip. Contents of ROM chip- or the chip itself- must be transferred to new PCB.


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 Post subject: Re: WD PCB question
PostPosted: August 20th, 2009, 13:59 
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Actually the ROM info is stored within the main chip on these drives.

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