Un-repairable torn-up mess of a D0
I have no idea if I'll ever make it work.  Haven't been able to so far.  Seriously trashed board.
Now it's spare parts.
*update*: Pretty much stripped now :)
	
		| Well I'm not sure where to start with this 
		box.  I did not take before pictures, which is just as well because they 
		would have made you cry.  I bought this board and the matching locked 
		retail HDD off of e-bay for $26.50.  The auction description did say it 
		was a failed mod attempt (should have said it was a disaster!)   
			
				| The thumbnails below link to 
				pop-ups of larger pics, some are as big as 1.1 meg, please 
				conserve bandwith (if you want to save the pic to your drive 
				that'd be great. |  
				| So, in this picture we have the topside D0 after 
				it looks to have been worked over by an icepick attached to a 
				jackhammer.  Not quite sure what to make of this. . . . hey 
				where's the trace that goes to the VIA? |  |  
				| Oh!  There it is, floating over the board.  This 
				is the only picture I wish I had taken before re-working it. I 
				simply folded the trace back over the top of the MCPx and ran a 
				bluewire to ground. |  |  
				| Where is the D0 via for the TSOP?  Under it of 
				course.  Who needs a TSOP anyway? |  |  
				| well since all the other D0's are hosed, why not 
				this one too?  Well I fixed this one also. |  |  Once all was said and done I was able to boot from a LPC cheapmod . . 
		. but, I am still getting an error 6 with the OEM hard disk (no biggie I 
		say to myself, it must have been killed in shipping, I just use my 60 
		gigger....)  Well, after putting in a drive from a perfectly good box of 
		the same rev that was unlocked I get an error 9.  Something funny with 
		that.  That is where the repair stands at this point (at least until I 
		figure out how the IDE controller was hosed). -nB |