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  • stevo1210
    Badcaps Legend
    • Oct 2006
    • 4156
    • Australia
    #1

    It still works!

    I've been in the IT industry for a while and today I am speechless. Not because I've broken up with my ex for exactly a year today... but because of this...



    Yes, that's a standard 40GB ATA HDD in my IBM Thinkpad T43 that I won off eBay for peanuts. It worked without any issue at all (yes, I'm serious). I only discovered these bent pins today when I took the HDD out to pop a newer IBM certified 80GB HDD in. If I didn't have the 80GB, it would have live in there like this... un-noticed. I dunno if this explains the random freezes I've been getting under Windows that won't show itself under days of burn-in tests... but nonetheless I'm still speechless that it works fine in the IBM.

    I guess it's been tampered with before I got my hands on the laptop. :-/
    Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous
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    • ratdude747
      Black Sheep
      • Nov 2008
      • 17136
      • USA
      #2
      Re: It still works!

      straighten the pins and see?

      Good catch BTW.
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        • stevo1210
          Badcaps Legend
          • Oct 2006
          • 4156
          • Australia
          #3
          Re: It still works!

          Still works A++ with pins un-straightened. However, I will try to straighten them and see if it still works
          Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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            • Uranium-235
              Comrade Glimmer
              • Aug 2007
              • 5042
              • US
              #4
              Re: It still works!

              be VERY careful. sometimes depending on the composition of the pins, sometimes if they're bent that much, bending them back will result in a break. if you have any data, try to back it up first

              anyhooo i'm not suprised it worked, ya know why? those are nearly all ground pins. but it might also explain the freezes as one of them see to be shorted to the above DMA I/O pins. I'm surprised this thing was able to get into DMA mode. In addition not having as much ground might also result in some instability.
              Attached Files
              Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
              ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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                • stevo1210
                  Badcaps Legend
                  • Oct 2006
                  • 4156
                  • Australia
                  #5
                  Re: It still works!

                  I haven't got anything important on there... just reformatted it with Windows 7 so it's pretty much blank. :-/
                  Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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                    • Uranium-235
                      Comrade Glimmer
                      • Aug 2007
                      • 5042
                      • US
                      #6
                      Re: It still works!

                      well careful. make sure you don't overbend them, you have very little leeway for pins that bent
                      Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
                      ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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                        • stevo1210
                          Badcaps Legend
                          • Oct 2006
                          • 4156
                          • Australia
                          #7
                          Re: It still works!

                          You know what's a bit suss? ALL of the bent pins are ground pins. I checked the schematics that Uranium-235 attached and they all lined up to be ground pins... bit suss but anyway.
                          Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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                            • Uranium-235
                              Comrade Glimmer
                              • Aug 2007
                              • 5042
                              • US
                              #8
                              Re: It still works!

                              a...bit.....'suss'? oh wait you're Australian. Let me get my aussie to american translator out...ahh here we go...suspicious. ok
                              Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
                              ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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