my Compaq laptop died on me today, suspecting the motherboard as I can remove the memory from it and it does the exact same thing; powers on for roughly 30 seconds and restarts.
Any ideas on this? Would be awesome to have some sort of USB adapter, but I doubt such a thing exists. XD
Any thoughts?
Luckily for you, laptop SATA is identical in spacing and pin layout to desktop SATA, unlike desktop vs. laptop IDE. Therefore, one of these bad boys (or the cheap eBay equivalent) will do the trick for you:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156014
ha, sweetness, I am totally going to grab one asap then. Got stuff on the hdd that I would just love to save off there. ^^;
Sucks tho. Looking around ebay, seems there are many on there with the same problem as mine, with motherboard failures. I think from now on I will stick with Toshiba.
Now to also get a stick of 2gb pc4200 for that laptop to put it back in service..
Good stuff.
I need to remember to ask for my school to get me 2GB of RAM for my netbook that I'm using for my thesis. And just to clarify my post that had a proofreading error above, I was attempting to draw a contrast to the differences between desktop and laptop
IDE, not SATA, which made no sense.
lol, I was trying to figure that out.. XD
Makes sense now.
KermMartian wrote:
I need to remember to ask for my school to get me 2GB of RAM for my netbook that I'm using for my thesis.
They'd do that? 
Ultimate Dev'r wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
I need to remember to ask for my school to get me 2GB of RAM for my netbook that I'm using for my thesis.
They'd do that?
alex10819 wrote:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/bdbf/
This. Sorry I'm late.
Oh, you still have IDE drive around? How quaint.
KermMartian wrote:
alex10819 wrote:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/bdbf/
This. Sorry I'm late.
Oh, you still have IDE drive around? How quaint.
I have a 5 1/4" drive in my comp right now 
Ultimate Dev'r wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
alex10819 wrote:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/bdbf/
This. Sorry I'm late.
Oh, you still have IDE drive around? How quaint.
I have a 5 1/4" drive in my comp right now
What, like a CD drive?
alex10819 wrote:
Ultimate Dev'r wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
alex10819 wrote:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/bdbf/
This. Sorry I'm late.
Oh, you still have IDE drive around? How quaint.
I have a 5 1/4" drive in my comp right now
What, like a CD drive?
YES. But not.
While we're busy reminiscing and being off-topic, I remember a veritable old 2.1GB 5.25" drive that I had that was only about 1/2" thick, but boy did that thing have some strong gyroscopic forces when it was spinning.
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