{"id":1031,"date":"2021-07-10T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/hitachi-pcb-0a71398-failure\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:58:37","slug":"hitachi-pcb-0a71398-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/hitachi-pcb-0a71398-failure.html","title":{"rendered":"Hitachi PCB 0A71398 Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PCB failures (Such as <b>Hitachi PCB 0A71398<\/b>) affect thousands of hard drives every year and often result in permanent data loss. A hard drive may suddenly fail to power on, and a computer may not detect that it is plugged in. Some failed hard drives will also show up in computer BIOS with incorrect brand\/model information. PCB failures can also cause physical issues such as read\/write head failures, and many PCB failure symptoms overlap with the symptoms of other physical hard drive issues.<\/p>\n<p>Some emails from customers of Hitachi PCB 0A71398 failures are listed below, along with tips for replacing &#038; repairing.<\/p>\n<h3>Hitachi PCB 0A71398 Failures:<\/h3>\n<p><b>Q: Bad\/blown ROM chip on HTS545050B9A300 drive&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and we can&#8217;t find a donor PCB with the same ROM version (C60F). We have many C64 and some C60Q, but no C60F. Does anyone know of a method to &#8220;trick&#8221; the drive into using a different version ROM? Or, does anyone happen to have a PCB (0A71398 DA2969) with C60F they&#8217;d be willing to sell or lend (for a fee)?. Thanks,. Brian<\/p>\n<p><b>Q: Bad\/blown ROM chip on HTS545050B9A300 drive&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and we can&#8217;t find a donor PCB with the same ROM version (C60F). We have many C64X and some C60Q, but no C60F. Does anyone know of a method to &#8220;trick&#8221; the drive into using a different version ROM? Or, does anyone happen to have a PCB (0A71398 DA2969) with C60F they&#8217;d be willing to sell or lend (for a fee)?Thanks,Brian<\/p>\n<h3>Replacement Hitachi PCB 0A71398:<\/h3>\n<p>To repair a failure board, the simple way is swapping the failure board with a replacement board. Donor boards on HardDriveParts.com are listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545012b9sa00-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2135.html\">Hitachi HTS545012B9SA00 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545016b9a300-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2139.html\">Hitachi HTS545016B9A300 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545016b9sa00-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2134.html\">Hitachi HTS545016B9SA00 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545025b9a300-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2133.html\">Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545025b9sa00-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2138.html\">Hitachi HTS545025B9SA00 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545032b9a300-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2136.html\">Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545032b9sa00-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2140.html\">Hitachi HTS545032B9SA00 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545050b9a300-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2137.html\">Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545050b9sa00-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2142.html\">Hitachi HTS545050B9SA00 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/hitachi-hts545080b9a300-pcb-board-0a71398-p-2141.html\">Hitachi HTS545080B9A300 PCB Board 0A71398<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCB failures (Such as Hitachi PCB 0A71398) affect thousands of hard drives every year and often result in permanent data loss. A hard drive may suddenly fail to power on, and a computer may not detect that it is plugged in. Some failed hard drives will also show up in computer BIOS with incorrect brand\/model information. PCB failures can also cause physical issues such as read\/write head failures, and many PCB failure symptoms overlap with the symptoms of other physical&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/hitachi-pcb-0a71398-failure.html\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pcbs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}