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hi,
these pins can be clean by rubber. can you have get fails after replacement ROM chip? it seems have firmware problem also. even got head crash. please contact me by email if need help. i can hand ...

Okay - I got the "my first SMD repair" kit and moved the referenced chip over.

It's not coming up as 0 heads/0 cyl/etc anymore, but it's not coming up "right", either - Wihdows sees it as an undefi ...

No, I hadn't. Do you think that the 0 heads/0 cylinders/etc thing is the ROM and not the chip I was thinking it was?

http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae332/derekf_drive/board.png

Bad pic, but best I can do. The burnt pin-area I was talking about is to the bottom right.

(also sent in email)

I’m not sure what you’re getting at – there’s not any socketed chips on the logic board; just the chip that stays attached to the drive (which is what I’m looking to replace). ...

Have a WD2500KS, which I'm guessing touched something it shouldn't -- all I got when I applied power was that familiar tick-tick-tick.

Found a seller on eBay that had the replacement logic board, a ...