LITEON DG-16D4S - SLIM JF Not Detecting Liteon After Sputnik Switch Install

fightincowboy

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Mar 15, 2011
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A friend brought me a slim over to flash so before doing anything I went ahead and pulled the Dummy info off. Following this I did an outro / ATA reset twice to get it to reset. Opened the drive up and it was MXIC (03) so I went and installed a sputnik switch. This is probably my 6th sputnik install so I'm pretty comfortable in my ability with it, solder points all look neat and the trace looks good but when connecting back up to JF I'm just getting a no drive detected msg. Running 10 ohms on the switch, unlock is in the off position currently.

Just to test we hooked the drive up to the 360 and tried to start the console the make sure everything was OK and the Xbox just continually chain restarts prior to reaching dashboard. I checked over the PCB to make sure everything was OK and I saw a small break on the board directly below the solder points for the sata connection. It was a slight split in the green of the PCB so I went ahead and soldered that just incase it was the issue but sure enough I'm just experiencing the same problems.

Anyone have an idea of what might be wrong or is the PCB just fried?
 

madhaxer

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Sep 27, 2012
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With no pics or logs all we can do is guess
 

fightincowboy

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Mar 15, 2011
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Yeah I figured as much, been trying to take some pics but neither my phone nor the digital camera can get a close enough shot that still maintains clarity. I can post the 2 pics I got but they're too fuzzy to make much out. Here goes anyway....


 

Dicko316

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Dec 13, 2010
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You cannot tell anything from those pictures mate, get it in focus and then crop the picture using paint or other program, even most phones allow this.
Your going to need to remover the QSB and tidyup first before taking the new pics.

My guess is you have damaged a few vias when making your cuts, so these will need to be repaired, or just buy another PCB.