Friday, September 25, 2009

Acer Aspire One SATA HDD Mod.

Well it was one of those days. After preparing to mod my AOne, the SATA socket I was desoldering from external 2.5" case fell to pieces. Another wonderful product from China. So I stripped a SATA data and power cable to use instead.

After 20 minutes of trying to desolder the solder on the AOne SATA solder points I decided to take the motherboard to a handphone shop and see if they would desolder for me. Unfortunately, after one look at those small solder points they decline.

So back home I was in a 'Fuck it' attitude and decided 'come heaven or hell' I was gonna solder those damn SATA sockets in. Which led to me spending 3 hours straight doing this project hence no documentation.

Anyway here is the video and below the links to the images in it.


http://www.theacerguy.com/2009/01/aspire-one-a110-25-sata/
http://radikal.ru/F/s50.radikal.ru/i129/0811/06/7a38d568617b.jpg.html
http://www.theacerguy.com/wp-content/uploads//2009/01/p1251495.jpg

Friday, September 11, 2009

Promises are made to be broken!!

Yeah, yeah. I know, I know. The how to videos will come when I get the screencapture program installed and a virual box ready.

But in other news; before I start on my Acer Aspire One Sata HDD mod I decided to rearm myself with some soldering hardware. So I got myself a new cheap iron, a battery powered iron, soldering wick, soldering paste and a solder sucker.

Before I kill my AOne's mobo I did some practicing on my ATI x1950 card since 2 of its supposed solid capacitor blew. Borrowed a few caps from a dead mobo. At first the card didn't want to boot. But after a while the caps charged up and I boot into a Live CD of Mint 7 and ran some videos.

Here are some pics:


I'll have a more detailed pic-documentary of the slaughter of my AOne. Wish me luck.