Fixing a broken memory pen

Leprechaun312 · 2 May 2013 at 23:24

So my sporty history teacher was giving us out all the notes and powerpoints this year for us to revise on our memory pens and being one of the rugby teachers thought it would be fun to throw the memory pens back to everyone. Of course he missed....we'll go with that and mine hit off a desk and now will not work, windows recognises it has been plugged in after a few seconds but says "this device is unknown" is there anyway to fix this or is the memory with the driver or bios for the memory pen corrupt or bust. i had a look at the curcuit board and nothing is borken connection wise but the wee red led doesn't turn on when plugged in

Leprechaun312 · 3 May 2013 at 10:20

is there anyway to flash the bios on a memory pen or is the data on it not going to be recoverable

Leprechaun312 · 3 May 2013 at 11:02

i might look into that, i have most fo the important stuff off it but it would have been nice to get all the stuff i needed off it. The only thing is if i was to do a reflow there is unfortunately glue on the back fo the circuit board would this not also reflow

Leprechaun312 · 3 May 2013 at 11:08

it looks like hot glue, you know the stuff that comes in a cylinder and slots into the back of a hot glue gun

Leprechaun312 · 3 May 2013 at 12:08

thanks will try that when i get home