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| Thread ID: 49575 | 2004-09-24 01:23:00 | Upgraded computer still not working. | willie_M (5608) | Press F1 |
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| 275042 | 2004-10-10 11:41:00 | >How much of the H/W is from that unit and contaminated? The only stuff remaining is... well... the Case, CDROM, HDD, and FDD.... maybe a cable or two... Maybe the RAM but i dont think so... The cat pee-ed in the PCI slots... far away from any other hardware... (its a desktop case so it didnt spray... it was sit and pee.) >Put ram else were memtest. get h/d test utility for that brand, you know the story. Tested the RAM with memtest already.. no probs there, tho the tester kept repeating after finishing. I think that hdd is forked, grinding and **** yknow :D >From where did the "replacement" mobo arrive, Via the local deceased Estate Auction perhaps? My dads PC. >Put memory and h/d in warm dry place for a while perhaps? Will that help? ?:| I'll give it a try... i might freeze that knifesharpner of a hard drive... >was there any brown colured washers between the MB and the mounting posts There were no washers, and i cant remember if it was standoffs or spacers... |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 275043 | 2004-10-10 12:50:00 | Freez? Many new H/D platters have/are glass composite. Glass not like freezer. If you are confident it has died there is no reason not to very carefully remove the top cover. Sterile conditions are required no fingers on platters. I found a pice of body hair under a r/rw head once, removed with tweesers (Not touching platter) like new. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 275044 | 2004-10-11 11:20:00 | >If you are confident it has died there is no reason not to very carefully remove the top cover. Very carefully... if I was to remove it carefully, I would be expecting it to work. But if I was to remove it at all, it's buggered pretty much. Isn't it? All the gas leaks out and your r/w head starts a tappin on the platters? |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 275045 | 2004-10-11 11:52:00 | No gas in there, except the constituants of air, Willie but, I'd be very carefull poping the lid. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 275046 | 2004-10-13 02:27:00 | I thought there was an inert gas such as xenon that kept the air lighter or something to enable the r/w head to skim nanometres off the surface of the disk??? | willie_M (5608) | ||
| 275047 | 2004-10-13 03:21:00 | No. There is a very fine filter on a small hole which lets air in and out so the HDA is always at atmospheric pressure. The heads are aerodynamically designed to "fly" very low over the disk surfaces. Taking the cover of a drive is final. If it's not done in clean-room conditions, it can never be trusted again. The dust in a normal room will much bigger then the head-media gap. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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