Pop! Fizzle..

vulcan · Posted: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:07:56 Post Subject: Pop! Fizzle..

... which is excatly what my hard drive did last night after shoving 12v through the 5v rail by mistake. oops. Bang Head

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:49:46 Post Subject:

DOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dadx2mj · Posted: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:52:21 Post Subject:

Just curious but how did you get 12v on your 5v rail?

vulcan · Posted: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:47:59 Post Subject:

I got amolex extension and switched the two rails over. The idea was to run my 120mm fan at 5v, thus making it quieter (this it does quite well). The fan is one apass thorough... which was connected to my hdd.

I've ordered an identical new one, and i hope that if i swap the controlllers i'll be able to recover at least some of the data.

HackaX0rus · Posted: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:15:24 Post Subject:

Lol wow thats pretty freakin awesome. it would have been slightly cooler had your hdd disk turned into a frisbee of death. but pop fizzile is coole none the less.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Burn a hole through the chips? One of the techs here at work brought me a HD that he thought was bad. Looked at the bottom of it and two of the chips were BURNT! He laughed said the user that tried to replace it plugged in the cable backwards...

WTF! How do you do that? Bang Head

His response: No idea, the guy said the cable wouldn't fit so he shoved it on. Yikes

HackaX0rus · Posted: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:44:31 Post Subject:

^^lol as far as computers go if it looks like it fits, It prolly does; dont force anything. Laughing

vulcan · Posted: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:43:11 Post Subject:

There are some nice marks, when the camera's charged i'll put up a photo. The stupid this was, i plugged it in, though "this doesn't seem right", paused for a couple of seconds and pressed the power switch anyway!

Dud3! · Posted: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:53:56 Post Subject:

Your HDD and my monitor should get together...

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:59:27 Post Subject:

Seems like a tough era for hardware... I haven't killed anything, but I do have some DOA items that just showed up.. Laughing