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Maverick2002

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My friggin' IBM 75GXP just got fried.

I think it's my fault though.

I was testing a power supply and hooked up only 3 pins out of the 4 pins on the FDD connector to the floppy drive (pins on the drive were bent and it "felt" like it was on right but I couldn't see). Then I turn on my machine and I start getting smoke. And sparks.

So I unhook the thing and see one of the FDD connector's pin holes are burned. Unfortunately my IBM HDD was on the same "channel" as the FDD. It still spins up when I turn the system on but won't be recognized. I tried different cables and putting it on IDE2 instead of IDE1. Same story. I'll try to hook it up to my main system as a slave drive but I think it's toasted. Please give me some pity ...
 
FoBoT

FoBoT

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D'oh!

i once fried/smoked my power supply by plugging a hard drive in while the PC was on
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sorry dude :(
 
murphy55d

murphy55d

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Can't blame IBM for this one. ;)

Sorry bout your hard drive though dude. That sucks.
 
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CPA

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Man, and I thought I was the only one who had ever done that. Luckily, I only killed my PS and floppy. It was my first ever build and I tried connect the floppy by feel rather than by sight. Big Mistake!
 
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dman

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If it doesn't semll burnt you can probably get it replaced. If you are worried about your data, you might be able to swap circuit boards from a good drive and read off the data before dumping the bad drive.
 
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Maverick2002

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No, it doesn't smell burnt ... it just doesn't want to work, on either PC. It still spins up, just doesn't get recognized by either machine. I doubt I can get it replaced. This was an OEM drive I bought in the summer of 2000. Don't even remember from where. There's no extremely valuable data, just some test results. Which means I'll have to repeat a few days worth of testing. Which sucks. Think there's any other way to test and see if the drive works?
 
BrunoPuntzJones

BrunoPuntzJones

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Originally posted by: FoBoT
D'oh!

i once fried/smoked my power supply by plugging a hard drive in while the PC was on
rolleye.gif


sorry dude :(
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I once took a floppy power connector and stuck it on the IDE connector on a SoundBlaster while the p00ter was running. I was really bored that day and have no idea how I just didn't think about it. Gave a nice big spark and poof. Dumb as hell.

 
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bozo1

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doubt I can get it replaced. This was an OEM drive I bought in the summer of 2000.
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Go to IBM's website and plug in the serial #. Unless it was a drive yanked out of a pre-built machine, it should have a 3-year warranty.
 
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Maverick2002

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Actually I found the link and it says my drive is still under warranty. Do I need to run the Drive Fitness Test? I doubt it would do much since my system won't even recognize the drive ...
 
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Maverick2002

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Sending it out today. I actually found the original ESD bag that it came in (with the P/N and S/N stickers on it and everything) and a great package to ship it in so it looks all professional. They might actually replace it *crosses fingers*. Meanwhile, I just got my overnighted WD JB1000SE (8mb cache) drive w00t!
 
Linflas

Linflas

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A related question about RMA'ing drives. I had an IBM 75GXP die that had all my tax data on it about 8 months ago. So far I have not really done anything about it because I really have no idea what they do with these drives once they get to IBM. I would hate to think that they would fix the problem and send it out to someone that would have the admittedly very small chance of running some recovery software on it to see what might have been on the drive before. Anyone know if they do some kind of secure wipe/erase on drives that can be refurbed before sending them out?
 
her209

her209

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Originally posted by: Linflas
A related question about RMA'ing drives. I had an IBM 75GXP die that had all my tax data on it about 8 months ago. So far I have not really done anything about it because I really have no idea what they do with these drives once they get to IBM. I would hate to think that they would fix the problem and send it out to someone that would have the admittedly very small chance of running some recovery software on it to see what might have been on the drive before. Anyone know if they do some kind of secure wipe/erase on drives that can be refurbed before sending them out?
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Mine died too recently. Why doesn't IBM take responsibily and recall the dam hdd like Intel did. :|
 
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Frosty3799

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Originally posted by: Linflas
A related question about RMA'ing drives. I had an IBM 75GXP die that had all my tax data on it about 8 months ago. So far I have not really done anything about it because I really have no idea what they do with these drives once they get to IBM. I would hate to think that they would fix the problem and send it out to someone that would have the admittedly very small chance of running some recovery software on it to see what might have been on the drive before. Anyone know if they do some kind of secure wipe/erase on drives that can be refurbed before sending them out?
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i dunno if it would screw up other stuff inthe drive.. but since its already dead why not just take a magnet to it to erase all the files for you
 
Linflas

Linflas

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Originally posted by: Frosty3799
Originally posted by: Linflas
A related question about RMA'ing drives. I had an IBM 75GXP die that had all my tax data on it about 8 months ago. So far I have not really done anything about it because I really have no idea what they do with these drives once they get to IBM. I would hate to think that they would fix the problem and send it out to someone that would have the admittedly very small chance of running some recovery software on it to see what might have been on the drive before. Anyone know if they do some kind of secure wipe/erase on drives that can be refurbed before sending them out?
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i dunno if it would screw up other stuff inthe drive.. but since its already dead why not just take a magnet to it to erase all the files for you
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I don't think that would be possible without opening up the drive and once I do that I would no longer be able to be RMA it.
 
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