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| Thread ID: 77078 | 2007-02-26 03:36:00 | dead harddrive motherboard caps have corrosion - what to do | Morgenmuffel (187) | Press F1 |
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| 528226 | 2007-02-26 03:36:00 | Hi all Wifes hard drive has just died, she was working away, the computer suddenly rebooted and now no longer even acknowledges the hard drives existence left it cool down, tried rebooting it's dead Opened comp up and find that 3 out of a group of 5 capacitors have corrosion on the tops of them The machine up till this point had been working fine although my wife has gone through 4 harddrives in 5 years anyway the questions Any tips or tricks to get the harddrive up and running to get information off it, I am going to attempt slaving it in my machine, but any other The corrosion on the top of the caps, does this mean the board is heading wesr very shortly or will the machine continue to run for some time yet Do they still sell those computers without keyboard mouse and monitor and possibly OS edit wifes machine is amd 1200 with 64mb graphic card and 512 ram and does pretty much everything she wants |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 528227 | 2007-02-26 04:11:00 | So the motherboard is dead. Doesn't mean the hard drive is. Hook it up as slave in another PC and see if you can read it and retrieve her docs. Of course she would have been making backups of all the really important stuff............ |
pctek (84) | ||
| 528228 | 2007-02-26 04:14:00 | Try clearing the CMOS first. Remove the motherboard battery and find the CMOS jumper. ( Usually 3 pins with a jumper over two of them ) With the power unplugged put the jumper across the 2-3 pins for 30 seconds or so (assuming it was already on the 1-2 pins ) Then put it back to where is was, put the battery back in and try booting. Also - does the mobo "beep" at all as its booting? If it does - its probably ok and the HDD is dead. If it doesn't - - - :( |
racepics (7812) | ||
| 528229 | 2007-02-26 05:39:00 | Sounds as if motherboard is dead, (chances are the harddrive itself is ok as pctek said, try slaving it in your machine first) there was a run of motherboards made with defective capacitors (several manufacturers) at about the time your comp was put together (2003ish), caps would pop and leak brown poop, can't be repaired, would advise trying to source another m'board, maybe here: www.checksun.co.nz (getting very hard to find now).:( Alternatively probably best to get a new upgrade 'box' like this: www.pbtech.co.nz and put your harddrive in that as a slave drive to get any data you need off it.:) |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 528230 | 2007-02-26 05:58:00 | Ok motherboard doesn't beep but everything else is detected and if I change the harddrive over to the same cable as the cdrom it still isn't detected, Every other failed harddrive i have had the machine had always slowed to a crawl in boot up before coming up with a harddrive error, with this one it just doesn't exist, nothing nada zip I have tried slaving the hard drive into my machine but the bios doesn't recognise it at all As for backups the last backups we did were in Dec 2006, and we have just realised we have never backed up the emails at all |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 528231 | 2007-02-26 08:57:00 | If you're handy and patient with a soldering iron you can replace those corroded caps. I did...and lived - so did my two mobos which are still going strong. That HD degradation is a typical symptom of bad caps on the mobo. For more info look here (www.badcaps.net/), and you can get replacement caps from JayCar (http:). Ask if you need more info. HTH ~ John |
braindead (1685) | ||
| 528232 | 2007-02-26 09:05:00 | To recover your files: There's a very simple device that attaches to an IDE drive and connects to your other PC with USB cable. Comes with a power supply. That way you don't have to open up your other PC to disconnect & reconnect drive & power cables. And it is not expensive - under $50 - and worth having around for testing spare drives. If you can't find it at your local PC store try http://www.cdynamics.co.nz |
coldot (6847) | ||
| 528233 | 2007-02-26 13:15:00 | you said you tried to slave the drive to your machine.......did you set the jumpers correctly and if so what did you set them to .....did you also plug in the IDE cable, the big flat data cable, the correct way round ?..... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 528234 | 2007-02-26 18:40:00 | you said you tried to slave the drive to your machine.......did you set the jumpers correctly and if so what did you set them to .....did you also plug in the IDE cable, the big flat data cable, the correct way round ?..... I set it to slave with master present, and the IDE cable only goes one way but it doesn't even power up, so I am thinking it is properly dead |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 528235 | 2007-02-26 18:51:00 | and the IDE cable only goes one way Well yes it does, but it is possible to force it the wrong way. The stripe on the cable should be the same side as the Master HDD. And check its in tight, not slightly up at one end......... |
pctek (84) | ||
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