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| Exit12 2003-05-20, 7:12 am |
| Hi
Just puttin a CD writer onto a TINY Machine and when I opened it up the IDE Cables have been glued into the slots and Glued to the hardware, eg... IDE cable glued to hard drive so that it cannpt be pulled out. Anyone ever came across this? Looks as if the hard drive will is gonna have half of teh cable end stuck in it, hence totally Wasted.
Anyone ever came across this?
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| Stardust 2003-05-20, 7:36 am |
| I ran into this one time...seems to do with something about shipping the computer and not wanting any of the cables coming loose. Best thing I found for it is take a soldering iron and heat the glue up. Hope this helps. | |
| enforcer 2003-05-20, 8:44 am |
| I've seen small dollops of a silicone based glue, which usually come off OK, but have never seen a connector totally glued. | |
| Exit12 2003-05-20, 9:21 am |
| Thanks for that. I managed to get the cable end out of the HD after the wires snapping away from the it. Tough work though. This thing was totally glued! Crazeee!. I guess it's good to come across these obstacles though!  | |
| SMDDev 2003-05-20, 4:21 pm |
| Alot of the machines I used to have to deal with were either hot glued or had a silcone caulking holding the ide cables into the IDE devices as well as the motherboard. It's really common in industrial pcs and in pcs that are shipped and back again... | |
| fatchronos 2003-05-20, 5:52 pm |
| A friend used to have a computer from a shop that were real tight arses about warranty and messing around with the internals etc... all the ISA cards (this was before PCI was commonplace) were glued in, IDE cords like you said, etc etc
That computer turned out to be a real pain for him cause while we were all discovering computers and hardware internals he couldn't touch his  |
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