Help Identifying ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000 Board Components

[kujoswrath]

Hi Everyone, hopefully somebody can help me.

I have acquired an ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000 with a faulty 10GE port. It's locked at 100Mbps. A component on the board went pop but I'm not sure what it is. If anybody has a schematic or knows what the component is I'd be extremely grateful.

I have attached pictures highlighting the thing that went pop.

Any help is appreciated. Nothing else around it looks damaged and a quick check with my multimeter seems to confirm this. I tried taking one of its brothers off and measuring it but, when I tried to grab it with my tweezers it decided to launch its self into another dimension. So figured I'd ask the experts before I try taking any more off.

Thanks for your time.

[Agent24]

Going by the colour (which seems to be black) I'm guessing an inductor or probably ferrite bead (or maybe an un-labelled resistor).
SMD ceramics are usually white or brown.

A ferrite or resistor will generally only blow up if something else is shorted, thus pulling too much current through it, however.

[rogfanther]

Going by the position, resistors. And if they burned, most possibly the ports on the network IC have been damaged also.

Does it have another port, and that works correctly ?

[McKey]

Going by the position, resistors. And if they burned, most possibly the ports on the network IC have been damaged also.

Does it have another port, and that works correctly ?

If it works on 100Mbps as he mentioned, probably the IC will be fine. That popped resistor means a lost wire pair, so easily can mean 100Mbps. Lets hope that there was just something dodgy on that port and the resistor saved it.

@OP:Any news? My tip would be to measure the resistors next to it (I bet they all will be 0-10 ohms) So use one that is similar.