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Did I damage anything?? Compaq Presario HD

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**THE-RFI-EMI-GUY**

Jan 1, 1970
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I was helping my wife install a higher capacity hard drive in her old
Compaq Presario today. Having poor lightiing (and eyesight!) I did not
notice that I had installed the ribbon cable such that all the odd pins
from motherboard end were connected to the even pins on the drive and
nothing was connected to the odd pins on the drive or to the even pins
on the MOBO. This I didn't notice for about 30 minutes of attempted
troubleshooting. The drive was slightly warm, which I attribute to the
motor being energized as the odd and even pins of +5 volts are directly
across from each other. According to the pinouts numerous signal pins
would have been crosswired and a few would possible have been forced to
ground. The HD light on the laptop was flashing this whole time and the
CD door would not open itself for some reason.

After correcting this, it seems the Win 98 install is going OK.

Anyone done this before? Any reason for concern about damage to the HD
or MOBO?

Thanks In Advance

--
Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Follow The Money" ;-P
 
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Guest

Jan 1, 1970
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u shld be ok,

there shld have been a notched key on the plug and a notch on the drive
toprevent coupling it wrong.
 
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**THE-RFI-EMI-GUY**

Jan 1, 1970
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There is but it was not effective at keeping me from misaligning the
rows. I think the notch keeps you from putting the plug on backwords,
which I didn't because the flat cable dressing prevented that.

u shld be ok,

there shld have been a notched key on the plug and a notch on the drive
toprevent coupling it wrong.

--
Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Follow The Money" ;-P
 
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Meat Plow

Jan 1, 1970
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I was helping my wife install a higher capacity hard drive in her old
Compaq Presario today. Having poor lightiing (and eyesight!) I did not
notice that I had installed the ribbon cable such that all the odd pins
from motherboard end were connected to the even pins on the drive and
nothing was connected to the odd pins on the drive or to the even pins
on the MOBO. This I didn't notice for about 30 minutes of attempted
troubleshooting. The drive was slightly warm, which I attribute to the
motor being energized as the odd and even pins of +5 volts are directly
across from each other. According to the pinouts numerous signal pins
would have been crosswired and a few would possible have been forced to
ground. The HD light on the laptop was flashing this whole time and the
CD door would not open itself for some reason.

After correcting this, it seems the Win 98 install is going OK.

Anyone done this before? Any reason for concern about damage to the HD
or MOBO?

Thanks In Advance

If it works now it will be ok.
 
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