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If a printed circuit or a solder joint on a hardware part is damaged

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Dear all

1.
If there is a microscopic gap in just one printed circuit, on a hardware part – it renders the whole hardware part useless?
If not, which hardware parts can partially work, despite one or more printed circuits being damaged?

2.
If there is a microscopic gap in just one solder joint, on a hardware part – it renders the whole hardware part useless?
If not, which hardware parts can partially work, despite one or more solder joints being damaged?

3.
Could a bended hardware part
Or
A broken circuit on a hardware part
Or
A broken solder joint on a hardware part
Change or influence how:
Data is created in the CPU and written to the drive?
For example, the file was written to the drive, but it would be corrupted.

Thank you

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If some part of the hardware is damaged enough to influence the way it functions, something that depends on that part might go wrong. Then you repair it or replace it.

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In regard of the proces and hardware parts responsible for creating data and write the data to the drive – could that be influenced?
So the proces could happen, but the data would be corrupt?

About corrupt data.

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There’s a lot written about how to avoid losing your data. Read this article: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

Make your data “Hard To Kill”.

If you didn’t back it up, it must not have been worth saving.

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In reply to About corrupt data.

I have backed up all my data on a USB drive.

Could you please try to answer my questions?

Especially:
3.
Could a bended hardware part
Or
A broken circuit on a hardware part
Or
A broken solder joint on a hardware part
Change or influence how:
Data is created in the CPU and written to the drive?
For example, the file was written to the drive, but it would be corrupted.

Thank you

[birdmantd]

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It could be any of the items you asked about, or it could be none of them. This issue is not easily determined without a hands-on diagnostic to determine the issue/solution. The best solution is to go to a computer repair shop if you can’t find/fix it yourself.

One more potential problem that you haven’t been able to confirm is whether the issue is on the motherboard or a expansion card (video, communications boards for example). That could easily be the issue, but we cannot determine that remotely.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by birdmantd.
• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by birdmantd.

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I don’t think he has an issue. It’s just a theoretical question.

[birdmantd]

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Time to close this strange thread that may be only hypothetical.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by birdmantd.

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