blue_dragon
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I have a seagate 200gb ata hd. When it started giving me signs it started by giving off SMART errors and then to go undetected by the bios. It was fixed by simply dusting some dust bunnies and replugging it into the computer. When I came back home from college for turkey day,(2-3 weeks later) it failed again. This time I took it and the computer with me to college where I would test it with an external usb enclosure and on someone elses computer. I coulnt manage to get it to work on the enclosure or my floormates pc. I came back home for xmas and began to feel the hard drvie while the computer was on. It spins but it then seems to lose rpm's and the gain then back periodically. Is it dead or do I need to switch out the pcb? I personally think the pcb is fried because it did have a LOT of dust that I wipe with the plam of my hand. Then again in college I had place it on my chair and it fell for like 2 ft into the carpet..What do you guys think? Ive heard of the trick of switching pcbs but I dont have the money to risk messing up a brand new identical drive