Toshiba, MK1646GSX SATA

Towerrat79 · Postby **Towerrat79** » 27.06.11, 22:38

Greetings
I have a Toshiba MK1646GSX 2.5 inch drive. Connecting it to the power on the PC-3000 the drive is dead. Not even the BSY light comes on. So with the talk about the Toshiba Blowing fuses, I would guess that the fuse is bad on the PCB. How do I find where the fuse is located? I have read the other posts to look for a component by the power source with the letter N. But I did not see one.

I have uploaded a Picture of the PCB.

Thanks Frank

Igor · Postby **Igor** » 28.06.11, 09:36

Hello

Should be this one (please see on the attached picture).

Towerrat79 · Postby **Towerrat79** » 29.06.11, 22:43

Igor,
Thank you for the reply. I replaced the fuse as indicated on the picture and am currently retrieving the data from the drive.

I found something that made the soldering of the wire to bridge the fuse at our local electronics shop. It is solder which is in a paste form and works great with a rework station. It comes in a syringe and you put a spot on each side where the fuse was removed, lay your bridging wire across on top of the solder paste. Heat the paste with the hot air gun and the solder which is suspended in the paste, will melt and bond to the board and wire. Worked very well!

In Germany it is called Lotpaste SC BLF03 from Vieweg GMBH (http://dosieren.de) It was a lot better than trying to solder with a needle tipped Iron

Thanks again for the help!
Frank

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