Another fateful day in early October 2020, I updated a customer's BIOS on their new custom PC build, with a Gigabyte B450M DS3H motherboard.

It bricked itself. I flashed BIOS update image in QFlash, and everything went through normal and 100% completion, but failed on reboot. Motherboard wouldn'...

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Data Recovery TVS Diode Removal

October 9, 2020, 5:06 am

I got really lucky one day in October 2020 with a data recovery. I was challenged when I discovered a hard drive I was handling had short circuited, and failed to power on. I did my best to diagnose the short by removing the HDD and testing the PCB with a multimeter. After research and testing, w...

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