Boj Job:
i once fixed a hard drive with a paper clip and scissors, basically one of the ide pins had come off the circuit and fell out of the plastic bit so i shoves a paper clip through the hole, bent it down abit which dug it into the circuit, snipped it with scissors and plugged in the IDE cable, Worked a treat for a year whilst my friend saved up ££ for a new drive
Blunder:
once blew a 40 and 30 gig drive by unplugging and plugging in the power molex of the 30 gig, the 30 gig was dying and would go into sleep mode and the only way to wake it without rebooting was to unplug its molex and plug it back in, the problem was on this particular time, i wasnt looking at what i was doing, put the molex in slightly ajar and made contact with the wrong pins on the drive which blew both hard drives as they were on the same PSU ring.
also once fried a jetway board (not my fault...) booted it and a transistor turned white hot and melted through the board whilst catching fire
i once fixed a hard drive with a paper clip and scissors, basically one of the ide pins had come off the circuit and fell out of the plastic bit so i shoves a paper clip through the hole, bent it down abit which dug it into the circuit, snipped it with scissors and plugged in the IDE cable, Worked a treat for a year whilst my friend saved up ££ for a new drive
Blunder:
once blew a 40 and 30 gig drive by unplugging and plugging in the power molex of the 30 gig, the 30 gig was dying and would go into sleep mode and the only way to wake it without rebooting was to unplug its molex and plug it back in, the problem was on this particular time, i wasnt looking at what i was doing, put the molex in slightly ajar and made contact with the wrong pins on the drive which blew both hard drives as they were on the same PSU ring.
also once fried a jetway board (not my fault...) booted it and a transistor turned white hot and melted through the board whilst catching fire