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Wasted $30 on a fake 'legacy' IDE cable from an auction site
It was supposed to be for my 1998 Compaq desktop build. The cable arrived with missing pin 20 and looked new off a factory line. Has anyone else gotten modern reproductions that just don't work with old drives?
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amy8586d ago
Ugh that really sucks. I've been burned the same way with "vintage" parts that are obviously fresh off a Chinese printer. It's such a pain when you think you've found the perfect piece for an old build and it ends up being useless.
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ryan_carr596d ago
Oh boy, you got the same junk I did last year. Those "new old stock" cables on auction sites are almost always modern knockoffs. The missing pin 20 is a dead giveaway - real legacy cables from the 90s had it intact. I had to dig through a pile of old PC parts at a local electronics recycler to find a genuine one. Check the crimped connections too, if they look too clean and shiny it's a reproduction.
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