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
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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? |
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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. |
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Where is the D0 via for the TSOP? Under it of
course. Who needs a TSOP anyway? |
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well since all the other D0's are hosed, why not
this one too? Well I fixed this one also. |
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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 |