The Danger Zone

Been awhile since I’ve posted. Pretty busy these few days playing with my spanking new toy. It’s an ACHI IR-Pro-SC BGA re-work station. Th...

At the end of Semptember 2009, Nintendo pushed ver4.2 update for the Wii, one of the ‘fixes’ they implemented was a check for region changed...

Had one of these recently, was a WDGreen power 1.5TB drive that had suffered some media damage (perhaps the issue with 8sec head parking mig...

Interested to try OSX out on your PC without all the other ‘hassles’ of partitioning and having a configured bootloader? Got random mac part...

Was trying to update a CFW’d PSP today and ran into this weird error message on the official sony 6.35 updater. Did some research and this i...

  Ever need to know how to renew your timing chain on your Opel vehicle? What’s the right torque on those cylinder head bolts? Opel TIS is...

  Had this stupid problem today, when I was trying to get VMware to work with a thumbdrive. Recently hooked up a Sony Ericsson smartphone ...

  Got one of these passed to me to try and pull data off it. HDD was dying (1st symptom was that it wouldn’t let you write files to it). In...

  This is from awhile back, putting it up if someone ever needs it. *Disclaimer, be careful working around mains voltages. Water and 220VA...

  Woke up in the morning to find the A/C trunking had some serious condensation dripping off the bottom. Didn’t take a picture as I immedia...

  B0rked E51 keypad, some keys weren’t functioning (right function key, 1, 2,3 and *). Decided to try and fix it. Still got the box… LOL....

Had a SDG-605B Samsung DVD drive for the Xbox with a weak optical pickup. It uses the SOH-D16 pickup that as of 2010 was still available in ...