Hello everyone! Sorry my first post is a cry for help but I had an email off a friend the other day who is having a bit of bother, probably best if I reproduce the email as it was written, see if anyone here can help or offer any advice;
When you power up the main power light is supposed to come on and the drive busy light also supposed come on for a couple of seconds and then go out. Then insert disk and fire up the computer whilst holding down start - hey presto. However power light comes on fine but no drive busy and no noise to indicate it is doing anything. Tried the old routine anyway but, as expected, nowt doing. So I decided I would open the old girl up and I found that the disk cradle part with the motor and all that jazz easily came away from the board via push fit connectors. Tried all these to make sure none were just badly seated - still nothing. Then decided I'd try and place the cradle in the working drive to see if I could id whether the board or the motor, etc might be at fault.......
Soooo... Drive busy light working but quite a gratey noise, light goes out after a couple of secs as expected but then comes on again.... off again.... on again.... you get the jist. Decided at this point I'd stop f**kin' about and just put the good one back together. All went back together fine, Phew. Funnily enough the bad noise on happens the first time the drive busy light comes on and when it trys on subsequent times it just sounds normal.
The whole purpose really was not to see if I could fix it there and then but to give some general clues. I don't know if any of this helps or not but it might be a starting point if you want to ask some tech guys on the forums and see what they come up with. My suspicions were with the niose which came at point of switching on was that something in the main cradle i.e. motor possible was not good and repeated trying with it had caused further fault to the circuit board