Bricked 910 HDD?

[biggerdave]

From another forum (credit to daf)

I was advised it can be repaired using a cf card and adapter, this was the way I was going to have a go at the 910 until a friend gave me a broken 710 with a burnt out motherboard and was in bits from where he had been examining it.

So I took the card reader and ribbon cable out of the 710.
I then took apart the 910, carefully, after removing the hard drive, some rubber mountings the hard drive sat in and another piece of rubber that was stuck to the unit under the hard drive it revealed the mounting holes for a card reader the same as a 710. Probably the same chassis as a 710 I suspected.

Took the ribbon cable that was used for the hard drive out and replaced it with the card reader and ribbon cable from the 710.
Screwed it in place, put it back together and switched it on, fingers crossed.

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On it come, patched a card I had to match the unit and happy days. What was a broken 910 in reality is now a 710 but as long as it works who cares, instead of a 20gb hard drive it will live on with an 8gb sd card.

So I accomplished a dead 910 into a working 710 with an sd card. Maybe going backwards to some but going forward to me as a working unit.

biggerdave Reviewed by biggerdave on 13th January 2013. Bricked 910 HDD? From another forum (credit to daf) I was advised it can be repaired using a cf card and adapter, this was the way I was going to have a go at the 910 until a friend gave me a broken 710 with a burnt out motherboard and was in bits from where he had been examining it. So I took the card reader and ribbon cable out of the 710. I then took apart the 910, carefully, after removing the hard drive, some rubber mountings the hard drive sat in and another piece of rubber that was stuck to the Rating: 5