Topic: Bricked Liteon 93450c (Read 78 times)

troublebreathing · « **on:** May 03, 2010, 04:01:00 PM »

So, I've always heard that its impossible to brick this drive..
Well I think i did it.
I cut the traces, but made a mistake. I did the 3 cut method, but didnt bridge around pad 101. I tried getting it into vendor mode (using the vampire) forever.. finally i cut pad 101 away from the trace, but since it still wasnt bridged it wasnt working. So i finally rejoined the trace (leaving pad 101 seperate) and voila, it worked. I got the keys/etc. Went back, resoldered everything and plugged the drive back into the computer (I had left JF 1.71 beta open, where i left off from getting the key) and just hit Liteon erase. It erased it, but the drive didnt intro correctly (they never do, btw) but it had a weird status code, and my normal trick of outro/intro didnt work.
Now i cant get the drive to read at all. Its like its completely fried. I only get status FF and when its plugged into the computer it won't eject (its erased) and the laser isnt lit (is this normal?).
I have no idea what to do. I've tried dosflash, l-o-eras, hotswapping from a working drive while in dosflash (gives me a different error code, but i think its completely incidental because it gives that code even when the bricked drive isnt plugged in 0x7f i think)
I've checked all my traces with a multimeter and everything is fine. All my traces are connected and nothing is touching ground.
This is my friends 360 and I dont want to have to give him mine, although i will if i cant fix it.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

iateshaggy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 03, 2010, 04:07:00 PM »

make sure you didn't short out when repairing your traces. send loe to the port the drive is on and see what u get.

troublebreathing · « **Reply #2 on:** May 03, 2010, 04:18:00 PM »

loe as in l-o-eras?
i get fff...
its like there isnt even a drive plugged in.

iateshaggy · « **Reply #3 on:** May 03, 2010, 04:43:00 PM »

QUOTE(iateshaggy @ May 3 2010, 05:07 PM)

make sure you didn't short out when repairing your traces. send loe to the port the drive is on and see what u get.

This post has been edited by iateshaggy: May 3 2010, 11:44 PM

troublebreathing · « **Reply #4 on:** May 03, 2010, 05:19:00 PM »

I've checked each trace to ground with a multimeter. Nothing is grounded out. Is that what you mean?

iateshaggy · « **Reply #5 on:** May 03, 2010, 07:28:00 PM »

pic of the pcb would be nice, this is probably either a case of you are shorted, or were shorted and fried something. since you did manage to dump the drive, you can always get a new liteon from fleabay or even just look for a new pcb.

troublebreathing · « **Reply #6 on:** May 03, 2010, 09:50:00 PM »

(IMG:http://www.abload.de/img/soldered06gp.png)
and the whole thing
(IMG:http://www.abload.de/img/soldered2j5b7.png)

Yeah, never claimed to be an expert.. haha.
I've done 5 or 6 of these though, and after my first one i haven't had any trouble.

iateshaggy · « **Reply #7 on:** May 03, 2010, 10:23:00 PM »

its all good, your soldering isn't half bad to be honest. my guess would be that via, check the 2 points i circled in the pic for continuity, if they don't have continuity, then solder a wire to their traces.

(IMG:http://i41.tinypic.com/r7nn77.jpg)

This post has been edited by iateshaggy: May 4 2010, 05:23 AM

troublebreathing · « **Reply #8 on:** May 03, 2010, 10:46:00 PM »

Well, I'll be damned.
No continuity.
We might have just become best friends.
Soldering a wire now, I'll report back.
and THANKS!

troublebreathing · « **Reply #9 on:** May 03, 2010, 11:29:00 PM »

Ok, I soldered the wire to the traces.
Now i get status 0x80 , so that means i'm getting somewhere, right?
I made sure to check all continuity and made sure nothing is touching ground.
Everything seems good..
Here's a picture:
(IMG:http://www.abload.de/img/soldered3hecx.png)

This post has been edited by troublebreathing: May 4 2010, 06:31 AM

iateshaggy · « **Reply #10 on:** May 03, 2010, 11:44:00 PM »

your jumper wire has bare wire going across 2 traces, see if it shorted out on the other trace. maybe use a little longer wire and line up the wire w/ the trace so when it curves off of it, it is insulated.

OggyUK · « **Reply #11 on:** May 04, 2010, 01:18:00 AM »

Also check 1.8v trace for contiunity incase youve sloppily cut that.

Its the one above the 101 / 3.3v trace.

troublebreathing · « **Reply #12 on:** May 04, 2010, 04:46:00 AM »

I've got continuity across all traces.
As for the bare wire, it's not making contact. Any other ideas? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

iateshaggy · « **Reply #13 on:** May 04, 2010, 10:27:00 AM »

if you have continuity every on all the traces that were cut/soldered on and not to anywhere else from them, and it still won't work, then your board is fried.

syntaxerror329 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 04, 2010, 01:34:00 PM »

I am willing to look at the board for you before you do something that can't be fixed.

PM me if you want.

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