Hi bigh29. I did get hold of another working drive and tried a board swap without any sucsess. I think the problem was in the heads section and not the board.
I found someone with the same mdl drive as mine. Manufactured 2 days before mine. I will first do a board swap, then a firmware swap and see how it goes.
I have a dead WD 80 gig drive.
MDL: WD800JB-00CRA1
Board numeber: 2060-001102-003 REV a
DATE: 17 SEP 2002
DCM: HSFHCV2CH
The drive cannot be detected in the bios and just halts the system from booting up. When the drive powers up it does the following..
spin up
seek noise
click (loud not...
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