One of the pins on my DVD drive was pushed in

[ColSpr]

I accidentally pushed a pin on my dvd drive in (the one on the ata133 plub). I was able to pull it back out. Does this mean the drive is broken? I'm building a new computer and have no way to test it now, just wondering if I should bring it back to CC.

 

[CheesePoofs]

I don't think so. I accidentally bent a whole rows of pins over on an old hard drive, and after i bent them back it continued to work fine/

 

[ColSpr]

I've bent pins before, but this time I managed to push it straight in about half way. Pulled it back out with a plier. I'm not sure what the back of the plug looks like, maybe I broke a weld or something.

 

[CheesePoofs]

If you've got an old or dead hard drive/optical drive, open it up and see how the pins are connected.