Recent content by murph187

I don't believe it's counterfeit. It came out of a genuine Dell laptop. The smudged print appears to be from misuse or being poorly handled. That being said, it could it why it's disfunctional. I've looked over the chip again, a bit more meticulously, and have spotted more blemishes on the...

That's a bummer, I'll possibly try bringing it to a local IT shop and see if someone can indentify what it is. It may be useless, but I hate the thought of throwing out a $500+ drive.

Are you aware of any solvent that may remove the goo/blobs?

Negative. It was just a spare part he had laying around, he was sending to me as a gesture. Nothing else was damaged on the motherboard when plugging this in. It was plugged in for possibly a minute or two before I shut the system off to diagnose -- which is when I noticed it was overheating. I...

Hey there guys, new to the forum here. I have a 1TB NVME drive, and as you can see in the comparison photo between mine, and a functioning one, there appears to be some kind of black melted substance covering a small portion of the PCB. The subtance is hard to the touch. It was sent to me by a...