TheWoWDBI had the same problem many others have reported for this quest... using the disc would start an animation but then it would immediately finish, and nothing counted toward the quest.
First I tried flying out of the area and back in, same problem.
Second I tried logging out where I stood and then logging back in, same problem.
Finally I did both. I flew to the nearest innkeeper, logged out, logged back in, then flew back. Everything worked as soon as I did that.
Quest
Data Mining
A World of Warcraft quest in The Storm Peaks. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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1. Go to a Databank (Orbs on this area, around 40,40)
2. Use the provided item.
That's all.
quest isnt bugged, due to lag it takes a while but your disk is indeed destroyed and replaced by another one with "use:"
Now that you have the disk completed just use it near the spheres floating where the gnomes where, they look like ww2 water mines exept that hover, cant miss them :P
Quest facts
LevelLevel 25-30
ZoneThe Storm Peaks
Quest ID12860
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(12860))
Requirements
FactionAlliance only
Read from the Blizzard quest API.
What to do
StorylineThe Storm Peaks, step 23 of 113
Rewards10g 50s, 4,100 XP
Description
That disk you assembled... it's blank! That crafty Mimir must've hidden the information somewhere else. Look around the Inventor's Library; do you see any databanks there? That might be what you need to do with the disk. Try using it near some of those databanks. Perhaps it's set to retrieve and store information from them. After you've tried your hand at that, contact me again and let me know what you've found. Meanwhile, I'll be trying to track down the other half of the archive key.
Where to go
Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.
Turn-inObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaObjective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #120 39.4 41.8
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Storm Peaks 39.4, 41.8
/way #120 39.4 41.8 - Objective area (centre of the marked area)The Storm Peaks 38.8, 41.7
/way #120 38.8 41.7 - Objective areaThe Storm Peaks 29.5, 73.9
/way #120 29.5 73.9
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Nearby on the The Storm Peaks map
- Spark of Genius about 260 yards
- Telemetry Online about 260 yards
- Homeward Bound about 880 yards
- Reverberation about 880 yards
- A Signal in Storm Peaks about 880 yards
- The Huntsman's Creed about 900 yards
- Walk a Mile in Her Shadows about 920 yards
- Dark Descension about 920 yards
- Spark of Imagination about 1,120 yards
- Bonds of Thunder about 1,120 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Storm Peaks, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Alliance flight points closest to the quest’s turn-in marker on The Storm Peaks:
- Bouldercrag's Refuge, The Storm Peaks
- Ulduar, The Storm Peaks
- Frosthold, The Storm Peaks
From the turn-in, the objective areas lie:
- Objective area
- Objective area
Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.
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Reward details
Reputation: Explorers' League +250
This organization seeks to find the origin of the dwarven race by collecting Titan artifacts. Their most recent research has led them to various archeological sites in Northrend.
Reputation group: Alliance Vanguard.
Other quests in The Storm Peaks that reward Explorers' League reputation: Sniffing Out the Perpetrator (+250), Pieces to the Puzzle (+250), Ancient Relics (+250), Norgannon's Shell (+250), The Master Explorer (+10), The Brothers Bronzebeard (+500).
Item facts are the current retail client’s (ItemSparse); the specialisations for a pick-one item are the ones the Blizzard quest API lists; faction and currency text is the client’s own. Lowest listed price = the US commodity auction house now.
Storyline
The Storm Peaks
Part 23 of 113.
Previous: Pieces to the Puzzle · Next: The Library Console
- 18Baby Stealers
- 19Sirana Iceshriek
- 20On Brann's Trail
- 21Sniffing Out the Perpetrator
- 22Pieces to the Puzzle
- 23Data Mining
- 24The Library Console
- 25Norgannon's Shell
- 26The Missing Bronzebeard
- 27The Nose Knows
- 28Sniffing Out the Perpetrator
- 29Speak Orcish, Man!
Showing steps 18 to 29 of 113.
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Pieces to the Puzzle
Thank the Light that someone got my message. Now that I'm safe from the iron dwarves, I need to ask your help with something. I've got a lead on Norgannon's keystone, which guards access to Ulduar's archives, but the Titans divided it into two pieces and secreted them away.
After this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- The Library Console
Norgannon's shell is within our reach, <name>. Take the inventor's disk into the library's interior. There should be a console there that you can activate with the disk. I imagine Mimir stored more there than just Norgannon's shell.
Other quests with this name
This one: Alliance only · The Storm Peaks · Level 25-30.
The storyline at a glance
The Storm Peaks has 113 steps, from Clean Up to The Reckoning.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): The Storm Peaks (110), Zul'Drak (2), Crystalsong Forest (1).
Steps of this storyline count toward:
Other storylines on The Storm Peaks map
- Never Hunt Alone
- Gnome Heritage Armor
- Titanstrike
- Hunt for the Harbinger
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.