Asus W3V - secondary hard drive in removable hot-swap bay

Hi there,
I have an Asus W3V notebook, with the swappable drive bay thing - along with the CD drive it came with, it also came with an extra swap bay to mount a secondary hard drive in. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get a hard drive along with the necessary mounting kit for use with this?

Or can you buy an entire hard drive bay assembly with the holder tray & all, already mounted?

please get back to me if you can help,

thank you

 

The extra swap bay will probably have everything you need but the hard drive (usually www.newegg.com has the better prices around).

Just for my benefit though, and for everyone else, can you post a picture of what that swap bay looks like and everything that comes with it? We can probably help more (at least I could) if I knew what exactly we were talking about.

 

ditto calling the manufacturer could help also if it didnt

 

For my W3J, the drive only came with an empty tray called traveller's tray or something. You cannot install hard drives using that.
You should call up a dealer, and tell them to ship a module which fits in the optical drive and can carry hard drives.
Search the forums (either for W3V or W3J - I think they are the same for both of them), you will find something there.

 

ok thanks guys for the info i'll look into it - , but ironically now i have a much, much, MUCH bigger problem.

I got home tonight after I read a service manual online at work about how to get at the 2nd memory module in my W3V which was located under the keyboard - so when I got home I took the keyboard off according to the instructions, and found the memory module (just out of curiosity) - then I put it all back together and tried to power up my notebook...

now it powers up for exactly 6 seconds, and then shuts down.

the fan runs quite fast too, which is unusual cause before whenever I would power it on the fan wouldn't come on until the machine had been running for awhile. I'm really worried I shorted something.

Any ideas? (thankfully I have this other laptop I'm typing on now hehe)

OR...does anyone know of an place that will service an Asus machine in the Greater Vancouver area?

Spencer

 

Well, I think it's easy to tell the difference between the traveler's drawer and the hard drive bay. The second has the electronics and plug to connect the hard drive, the first is just a piece of plastic.

If you have the traveler's drawer only, it's clear you need to order the HDD bay as well.

Edit: This was a reply to the above posts.

 

Yeah it does have screw holes it seems for a hard drive and that's why I thought it was for putting a hard drive in (it also has a picture of a hard drive symbol on the back with the word "2nd" on it) - so I could be right??

But it is entirely plastic - no kit or anything for the drive.

Either way I don't mind spending money on a whole secondary hot-swap bay hard drive that will fit on my machine - I just need to know where I can get one!!

 

Unfortunately now my main priority is getting the W3V to boot up again!!! I think I screwed it up (see 3 posts up...)

 

Open the keyboard and disconnect it.
The reseat the memory correctly.
Don't re-attach the keyboard. Turn the notebook on as it is and see what happens.

 

In any case, open it and close it again. Perhaps it's something that can be reverted.

The 6 seconds interval makes me think of the power button... when you hold the power button for 6 seconds the computer shuts down. Perhaps something is wrong there (I wouldn't say "shorted" because the thing is probably digital, not analog with capacitors and stuff like that), and the power button is activated on every boot, leading the computer to shut down after 6 seconds.

I second reseating the memory if you removed it when you opened it up the first time.

 

nope doesn't look like it made a difference. Still starts up for 6 seconds with the fan at a high speed, then shuts down.

 

Did you touch any wires ?

 

not that i know of - i take electronics apart all the time i'm pretty careful and aware with what i'm doing (which is why this is a surprise to me that this happened) - your power button theory makes a bit of sense though

 

I use the Multibay HDD all the time,

you know the blank travellers draw?

Basically the travellers draw is the HDD kit, but with the components stripped out, and by components I mean there is a small circuit board with a PATA HDD plug on the inside (for your HDD) and a nother plug on the outside that plugs into the laptop when you insert the HDD bay. and a metal plate sits across the bottom of the tray.

If you could get the plugs attached to the circuit board and the metal plate you could turn your travellers draw in to a HDD kit, but I am sure you could not get those parts easily.

Annoying because they charge you for about $5 worth of stuff........Anyhow I purchased mine from Proportable.