Turns out there is a ribbon connecting the SATA daughter-board and the motherboard on the Asus R556 series laptops which is faulty. There are two fixes; reflow the traces at both ends of the ribbon (it’s easy to identify, as it crosses the HDD caddy), or purchase a new ribbon, daughter board and ribbon connector (for the motherboard interface).

Personally, I am inclined to agree with you, ‘Planned Self-Termination’. :/

….and Asus used to be so good too. :(

Same issue here. Bought a replacement hard drive for this laptop and it will not show the drive after the first time I booted the device to install windows. This is the third hard drive I have tried in this machine and each time it’s the same issue; works for a short period of time and then the drive stops being recognized by the system at all.

I have cleaned the connections, tried a reflow of the daughter-board which has the SATA connector (and the motherboard too). Then tied a new HDD… NOPE. Fails within 30 minutes of the install.

Bottom line is this is a very poorly constructed laptop with poorly engineered parts. This was supposed to be an easy refurb for a friend, and it’s just turned out to be a money pit.

I do not recommend the Asus R5XX model line, and will be going back to Toshiba.

Ignore Tom Chai, he's talking out of his ass. It is possible to remove the glass from the rear of an Iphone x. I have done hundreds of them. The adhesive he talks about doesn't break down using the kind of amateur heat tools that most repair businesses might have. The adhesive does break down at a much higher temperature which can be a problem to the internals of the phone. To remove the glass you have to apply very high temperatures for limited periods of time, just enough to release the adhesive but not enough to dissapate through the phone, this is why you see the emergence of lazer machines that can apply that blast of heat directly to the adhesive layer. It can also be achieved by a hot air gun, a small very directional hot air station can work too with some experience. To summarise it is not beyond insane, it's just beyond Tom Chai.

@mattyabsley no need to be nice, F U C K you.

You shared something really helpful, I made a ringtone change for my iphone 6 at: https://suonerietelefono.com/

That's very rude and mean of you to leave a response like that here. I didn't ask for your preaching. So go &&^& yourself.

my tablet tikes pink

This worked for me too. By simply removing the phone case. Thanks so much.