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Post your worthless and/or pointless repairs
Probably crossing way over into ghetto territory… but who cares. 
) and disconnected the optical drive. Then I connected the PC to my test monitor and keyboard and fired away. Sure enough, the PC booted right into Windows. 
), so what I did instead is take a diode and wire it from the 3.3V rail on my test ATX PSU to the 2.5V rail on the drive. With a diode drop of 0.6-0.7 Volts, I figured I would get about 2.6 to 2.7V. It looked like the 2.5V rail was used for the RAM cache chip, so 2.6-2.7V didn’t seem too dangerous. I also put my multimeter in series with that to measure the current, in case there is something wrong (in which case, I could immediately power down my test PSU… though I don’t suggest anyone to do rely on this method, as you can still do quite a bit of damage if something is shorted).
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