So I f^cked up when I was putting this machine back together after the x-clamp replacement and forgot to put in to top washers to raise the heatsinks off the board - It was my 3rd machine that day and 6th one this week! once I noticed my mistake (the board was bowing pretty good) I inserted the washers and turned it on to get the E13 - Faulty RAM brick/ Shorted out resistor, so naturally I figured I cracked a ram brick, but I loosened the screws to get a different error:
When I try to retrieve the secondary error code now I get a 0101 - or at least I think. Because when I press the eject button a 5th time it doesn't go back to the 3 lights it continues giving me flashing lights this is what I get the first 20 times I press the eject button - again without it ever going back to the 3 lights:
0101 0101 0000 0001 0010
WTF!? Anyone else have this problem before? The machine had actually had a x-clamp repair attempted on it before (I dunno if it ever worked after that but they did a crappy job) I tried to heat it up using llamma's method because I don't have a heat gun but it still didn't work.
Originally posted by haza12d: Could be just a dead box now... with no hope of coming back to life...
I refuse to believe this! lol, no, your probably right I should have been more careful, but I think there is still hope. I was just wondering if any had ever seen this kind of secondary error code before...
