Dang it! I opened the case of my wife's old Dell GX 180 to clean it out, and upgrade the video card yesterday. I forgot that I had used a non-Dell short IDE ribbon cable to connect the DVD drives. My mind saw that the cable was being pulled tight and that I was busting something but my hand kept opening the case anyway. "Bad Hands!" The cable cracked the plastic, and bent the pins on the mobo Primary IDE socket. Since the socket comes off the board and turns a 90 I had to take the tray out to attempt to straighten the pins. I got it good enough so that the cable would plug in it again, and none of the 40 pins are bent over. Well the black plastic clamp that holds the ribbon wire in connection with the ribbon's plug also busted. I reused the wire because I didn't feel like looking in my junk boxes for another cable. The cable is now bad and the drives give errors on the read. Now I have to take her desk apart again just to get the PC out to replace this stupid cable. Dang it! I think I will dust and clean mine today and see what I can bust in it! I bet its a bitch to replace one of these IDE conectors too.
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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
Mark Twain
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
John Paul Jones
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
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Re: Screwed up IDE/PATA Mobo Socket
pics please... the connector shold be ok, so my guess is the cord.sigpic
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Re: Screwed up IDE/PATA Mobo Socket
Would love to give you pics but the wife busted the digital carmera a while back. Her web cam isn't hooked up right now and I just don't want to mess with that old nest of snakes right now."It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
Mark Twain
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
John Paul Jones
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
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