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Old 11-20-2007, 02:20 PM   #1334
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You can try a new board. Just by the size and shape that looks like a voltage regulator, although manufacturers can make almost anything into any package, so that is just an educated guess.

I've never dismantled a drive to look at the board, but if you can do it I would try to just replace the whole board. You don't know if anything else went bad when that component blew.
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