{"id":48,"date":"2010-03-03T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/xrcalvar\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-03-03T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:27:28","slug":"unbricking-my-sheevaplug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/xrcalvar\/2010\/03\/03\/unbricking-my-sheevaplug\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbricking my SheevaPlug"},"content":{"rendered":"

More or less one month ago, my SheevaPlug<\/a> went bananas and didn’t turn on again. After talking to a colleague<\/a> at Igalia<\/a> who googled a bit, we found out that it could be a problem with the power supply unit. The issue seems to be known<\/a> and it happens when you keep an external harddisk taking power directly from the USB port for a long time. It seems that power is not enough and you get a burnt power supply unit.<\/p>\n

What I did was opening the Sheeva and taking the power supply unit to electronics specialized shop<\/a> in my city and they told me that they didn’t have so small power supply unit, but that I could use an external one. He explained me what I should do.<\/p>\n

I needed a couple of pieces not to cut the new power supply unit cables and a soldering iron (with some solder, of course). Then I could cut the connector of the broken power supply unit as you can see in the picture:<\/p>\n

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Next step was soldering the red cables to the inner pole of the adapter and the black ones to the outter pole (if I am not mistaken, you can recognize in the picture that the outter is negative and inner is positive). As I was bad doing this manual works at school and I still am, we (my wife<\/a> and me, yes the pole soldered by her was in a better shape than mine) had to insulate them with a bit of insulating tape. You can see this in the picture.<\/p>\n

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The rest was just putting the external power supply connector thru the hole left by the old one and keep the cables where the old one was. I connected it to the motherboard, closed it and voil\u00e0!<\/p>\n

Now I have the again the Sheeva with the external hard disk, but I provide external supply with something similar to this<\/a> not to have the same problem again, but I wonder if just using a more powerful power supply unit would remove the problem of having the harddisk with external an external one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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