Recent content by Deezell

Cheers, For all I know there could be many other issues but as they are likely beyond me at this stage (and given the balance of the stakes against any further investment of time) I might go down this line and see what happens. I think I still like the idea of running the drive through a USB...

I've already replaced the drive with a new one, kinda want to see if I can get it running as much as I want to recover whatever is on it. Also I'm confused about what you mean in the second, I think the diode is shorted already which is why it is preventing the PSU from powering on.

Thanks! I replaced the old PSU (Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W) and the case (NZXT H500i) during this fix so my new build is now. CPU : AMD Ryzen 3600 w/ stock cooler Motherboard : Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite RAM : Corsair Vengeance Pro 16gb x4 HDD1 : Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB M.2 HDD2 : Samsung...

I have had a 2.5" Firecuda ST2000LX001 SSHD fail on me while I was diagnosing a power issue with my PSU. While turning the PC on to check the power I noticed a small amount of smoke coming from the hdd and it hasn't worked since. While I have since fixed the PSU issue, the computer will not...