![]() ![]() ![]() The only way to find out is to go digging for information online, and you’ve got to apply a strong sort filter to estimate the value of what you’ll find. Other drives, like mine, incorporate the ROM into the controller. Some hard drives have an externally mounted ROM/NVRAM chip that can be removed and soldered on to a new PCB. Your options at this point depend on what sort of HDD you have. Beep-less, my drive sat mute - spinning, but unrecognized in BIOS. Swapping out the PCB eliminated the 12 beeps, but accomplished nothing else. In retrospect, a full drive might have been the better option, but the purchase only set me back $22 and ~14 days while my part took the slowboat from China. Each drive ROM contains parameters and data unique to that particular device - if the parameters for your dead drive are different from those contained on the donor PCB, it won’t function. Understand this: Simply replacing the PCB almost certainly won’t fix a dead drive.
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