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Iriver 120 can't see it's hard drive

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Zutroy:
Multiplex, seems like you got it spot on. the daughterbord was slightly warped, ipressed down hard on it and it seems fine now. Thanks :)

Edit, and it;s stopped again. bugger

Multiplex:
Ah, that's bad :-(

If you are lucky maybe you can just re-solder the mounting pins, if not the pins on the inter-board connectors may need soldering - that's pretty specialist.

Zutroy:
Might have a go at re-soldering the pins. How do i make it a tighter fit?

Multiplex:
Sorry - I don't know as I've not had to do this myself.

However - if I were planning to have a go at my player I'd start by studying these pictures http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverInfo#H1x0_Nude and the next row down where you can see the daughter board. you can see the two connectors that provide the electrical connections and the four brass pins that hold the boards together by being soldered.

If you are very lucky what has happened is that the soldering to the brass pins has failed and 'all' you need to do is squeeze the two boards together and re-solder them.

If you are unlucky the movement of the boards has broken the soldering on those multi-way connector and re-soldering them is a specialist job.

Zutroy:
ok, so i took it apart got the daughter board off and found one of the connector pads had come off the mainboard and was stuck to the daughter board. Damn.


I guess it's pretty much fubar'd now as i can barely see the pins to the connector and de-soldering the posts was the only soldering experience I've had in my life.

So i thought; sod it i don't know what I'm doing so it doesn't really matter that I can't see it, so i cleaned the soldering iron stuck the connector on the board where it looked right and heated it up with the iron. It seamed to stick so i put it back together...

It worked.

I was amazed.

No way, it actually works fine now. I'm still in shock. Thanks for all your help wouldn't have known what to try other wise. Hopefully get another 4 years out of it yet.

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