Nice to have gifted buddies

TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
edited November 2003 in Hardware
I was wailing this weekend as I had a Maxtor 120gb ide drive fail that I had not backed up in a few weeks and I was gonna lose a bunch of important email. Buddy stopped by before we hit the computer fleamarket and inspects failed drive. Mentions I have knocked off a componet from the bottom of the curcuit board.

Great I figure... so now I lose not only the data but warranty also.

He digs around in the bottom of the rack mount case it was in and fishes out a tiny chip thing. TINY TINY TINY chip looking thingy. Spends hours at the flea market digging thru piles of trash and finds another board with same componet. Buys junk borad for a QUARTER.

Solders it onto my disks circuit board and uses platic welder to attach it and brings me back a working drive.

Gee I love Gilbert ! This is what real computer friends do for other computer geeks. I could of never in a million years ever soldered something so tiny onto that board. Gilbert just shrugs and gives me that goofy grin of his....

What a buddy.

Tex

Comments

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Now THAT is a friend. Good to know there are folks like that around.

    John.
  • fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
    edited November 2003
    That is wicked cool. But come on Ageek, It's not like he gave the guy CPR :p
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited November 2003
    No even better. He gave my hard drive cpr. I mean h*ll even I can give a person cpr. But hard drive cpr is special.

    Tex
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited November 2003
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  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Actually, it is about like my changing out the CONTROLLER card from an originally identical HD as to batch to get e friend's business data back (whihc I have doen times 5). In my case, needed the card back, this guy fixed the card itself (the one hung onto HD mech with short ribbon cable connects. that takes mil-spec soldering skills and VERY good vision, and a caring heart-- which in these days of Aids would be what would be needed to give direct mouth to mouth to an unknown person, and this guy did the equiv of open heart surgery on a HD mech just for a friend.

    John.
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited November 2003
    Yes it is good to have friends that are very talented like that. I remember one day when my mom had a bad floppy, I took the little floppy disk inside of it and put it into another fdd case and got her data off, she thought it was the best thing ever.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited November 2003
    Tex had this to say
    Solders it onto my disks circuit board and uses platic welder to attach it and brings me back a working drive.

    Gee I love Gilbert ! This is what real computer friends do for other computer geeks. I could of never in a million years ever soldered something so tiny onto that board. Gilbert just shrugs and gives me that goofy grin of his....

    What a buddy.

    Tex
    Sounds like someone deseves a trip to Outback! 24oz Prime Rib anyone.... :)
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited November 2003
    Omega65 had this to say
    Tex had this to say
    Solders it onto my disks circuit board and uses platic welder to attach it and brings me back a working drive.

    Gee I love Gilbert ! This is what real computer friends do for other computer geeks. I could of never in a million years ever soldered something so tiny onto that board. Gilbert just shrugs and gives me that goofy grin of his....

    What a buddy.

    Tex
    Sounds like someone deseves a trip to Outback! 24oz Prime Rib anyone.... :)

    Gilbert eats at my house five nights a week as it is.... if I feed him prime rib he will never... ever... go home.

    Tex
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Im moving to Texas :D
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