• Inucune@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Hard drive pin that needed to return to home position for the machine to boot would stick. A small drop would allow the spring to push it back home, and the drive would return to function.

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      6 months ago

      Got the same energy as “wrap your Xbox in a towel to let the heat resolder the broken connections”.

      We should really just let people open their own hardware to easily fix this stuff.