Mangas
08-10-2006, 07:27 AM
Hello there
The strangest thing happen to one drive that ive just bougth (second hand)Seagate SATA ST3120026A Barracuda 120GB, when I plug it in to the pc the computer dindt turn on at all after several trys it turn on but next minute when I look there was a litle fire coming out from the botom of the drive, ive turn the computer off and toke the drive out, then I notice a litle tiny chip or what that was looked totaly tosted, I pick it out clean the drive on the spot where the chip was then guess what? ive plug it back and it was stil working!!! I instaled the OS in it and is still working fine!!!
Did this ever happen to anyone?
The strangest thing happen to one drive that ive just bougth (second hand)Seagate SATA ST3120026A Barracuda 120GB, when I plug it in to the pc the computer dindt turn on at all after several trys it turn on but next minute when I look there was a litle fire coming out from the botom of the drive, ive turn the computer off and toke the drive out, then I notice a litle tiny chip or what that was looked totaly tosted, I pick it out clean the drive on the spot where the chip was then guess what? ive plug it back and it was stil working!!! I instaled the OS in it and is still working fine!!!
Did this ever happen to anyone?