Finally got to try it

[sodface]

I finally got to try it --- and it worked! We had an old quantum 4 gig scsi hard drive die at work today. We also happened to have an identical one sitting in a drawer. I swapped the electronics board from the spare one to the bad one and it booted right up. I'd read about doing that but never had the opportunity to try it. Pretty cool.

[Paragon]

Was it difficult Sodface? I mean was it as simple as a board swap or was there soldering and etc. involved?

[RotorHead]

Nice one!!....hehe, that’ll void your warranty!! :look: :p

You didn't happen to get pic's?

RH

[sodface]

Paragon-
No soldering involved, just like 5 small screws and a thin ribbon cable. Took like 30 seconds to swap it.

Rotorhead-
No pics :mad: But I can take some if any one is interested, as soon as I get my digi back!

... and now for the rest of the story...

So I got the hard drive working (keep in mind this is a PII 266 we're talking about here on some goofy NEC mobo with EDO SIMMS) booted up and the NIC and sound were inop. I played around with that for a while, (I'm the one the got it all working to begin with) someone a long time ago had disconnected the onboard NIC and installed an ISA one. I finally ripped out the ISA NIC and the PCMCIA card that locks up the computer every time you connect the ribbon cable to the card reader and hooked the onboard NIC back up. Downloaded drivers for the onboard NIC and got it working (why was it disconnected?!) and got the sound going again after playing with IRQ's. Anyway it's all working again and hitting the internet via the LAN. Not 15 minutes later the base IT guys come shuffling in to install NAV on one of the other computers and one of the guys I work with says "hey do this one too". So IT boy installs NAV and the desktop doesn't load on reboot, just a mouse pointer and no icons. So he slams it and reboots, this time win98 comes up so they take off. My co-worker starts IE and NAV tries to update at the same time... IE crashes, then windows crashes. After that I got continuous reboots. Format C: was the last thing I did before I left work. So in the end I could have just changed the hard drive, but then what fun would that have been?

[Mikki]

Hehe...gotta love that :). Playing with the old stuff can be fun until you try and find drivers...:p