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Offline motrucker

Re: Will this hard drive be ok?
« on: December 17, 2005, 08:40:46 AM »
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lauri_t wrote:
You must plug the cable so that Pin 1 on the motherboard goes to Pin 1 on the hard disk! Otherwise the +5v will go to the wrong place and may result in smoke.

may result in smoke.? How 'bout sure thing - it will burn up that cable in a heartbeat (at the very least).

Don't mean to scare anyone, but if you've been there, you know what I mean.
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