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post #1 of 11
3/9/06 at 1:41pm
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I had a screw come loose inside the HDD compartment of my z70va. It was preventing my computer from booting into windows. When I screwed the screw back into its slot, I was able to boot back into windows. Im wondering, would the screw touching the HDD done any permanent damage to it?
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post #2 of 11
3/9/06 at 6:19pm
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Originally Posted by chado
I had a screw come loose inside the HDD compartment of my z70va. It was preventing my computer from booting into windows. When I screwed the screw back into its slot, I was able to boot back into windows. Im wondering, would the screw touching the HDD done any permanent damage to it?
can you take a picture of it?
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post #3 of 11
3/9/06 at 8:37pm
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The second image shows which screw came loose (its screwed back in in the picture)


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post #4 of 11
3/9/06 at 9:05pm
can't tell by the pictures, I can only tell it's a Hitachi HD.
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post #5 of 11
3/9/06 at 9:20pm
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can you explain to me what I should be looking for?
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post #6 of 11
3/9/06 at 9:30pm
On the 2nd picture, is it the screw you talking about? I just can't see how can it damage the drive.
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post #7 of 11
3/9/06 at 10:36pm
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yea.. thats the screw, but thats the screw when it is screwed in. That screw, when my HDD wasnt working, was loose and banging around in that small compartment.
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post #8 of 11
3/9/06 at 11:22pm
Hint while taking pictures up close...

Look for a "macro setting" on your camera. Its generally seen as a flower. Press that... let it focus... and hold VERY still (try with and without flash)

But not to close (as you've done) because then it will focus on the thing it can (in this case the table or the reflection of the camera)
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post #9 of 11
3/10/06 at 12:41am
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thanks for the tip, appreciate it
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post #10 of 11
3/16/06 at 6:21pm

New to this forum but obvious questions require obvious answers

Hi guys! I am rather shocked someone would comment saying they can't see how a loose screw could damage things. Of course it can. It's metal isn't it! It could land on the PCB of the HD or the notebook mainboard and act as a bridge shorting out stuff. The board of a computer is sprayed with a forum of lacquer BUT a lot of the solder points etc are bare and if a piece of metal landed on it it certainly would bridge to another point on the board.
Justin
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post #11 of 11
3/16/06 at 6:33pm
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Originally Posted by Solid-State
Hi guys! I am rather shocked someone would comment saying they can't see how a loose screw could damage things. Of course it can. It's metal isn't it! It could land on the PCB of the HD or the notebook mainboard and act as a bridge shorting out stuff. The board of a computer is sprayed with a forum of lacquer BUT a lot of the solder points etc are bare and if a piece of metal landed on it it certainly would bridge to another point on the board.
Justin
I agree, what I was saying is I couldn't tell by that picture. But the screws that Asus provided are short screws, that is why I asked him to take a picture of it.

I've only seen that people use long screws that damage the hard drive.
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