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    8800gts cap broke off :(






    As you can see (Sorry about quality) 1 of the capacitors has come off. This happened the other day My monitor lost output signal so I restarted and it happened 2 more times so I thought something was up and took the card out and noticed the capacitor was not seated correctly and wobbly then it broke off in my hand lol. I hope it can be repaired as I'm too poor to replace and am having to rock a crappy old PCI only FX5200 which is utter balls. I was told on another forum I can just solder a couple bits of wire from the pads to the legs of the Capacitor as it's fine just decapitated. Would this really be able to repair my card?. I got a borrow of a solder kit but is missing the 40w Iron just has a 100w gun in it lol

    Edit I have read through 10 pages and you guys like to know what caps they are

    642
    SVP
    180
    16

    Is what the cap has written on it I heard these are good 1's?
    Last edited by Supersteve; 02-09-2011, 09:48 PM.
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    #2
    Re: 8800gts cap broke off

    Those are good caps, Sanyo's Solid Polymer Capacitor SVP series.
    just solder back to the PCB.
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      #3
      Re: 8800gts cap broke off

      I have never solderd anything before and cant find a video that shows how to put 1 of those SMD cap's back on. I saw a guide but to be host didn't understand it. If I can use 2 small bits of wire to put it back on it would be easier for me as my CMOS battery is vertical in my mobo and pretty much touches/rubs the cap wich I think is the reason the cap became loose in the first place. Thanks for reading by the way and the quick response

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        #4
        Re: 8800gts cap broke off

        Do you have the right equipment and some old boards? Just take an old board and take parts off and put them back on for practice, after about an hour you'll get the hang of it and can fix that video card w/o a problem.

        EDIT: BTW... take a can of air to your fan :P and maybe computer if you're GPU fan was that bad :P

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          #5
          Re: 8800gts cap broke off

          If you have a TV repair shop nearby, call and ask them if they will solder it back on.

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            #6
            Re: 8800gts cap broke off

            I dont really have any other boards to play with I'm going to get a 40w iron tomorrow hopefuully, yeah the fan is pretty choc full of crap lol didn't think it was as bad until I opened the case to inspect my card

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              #7
              Re: 8800gts cap broke off

              Originally posted by steve2 View Post
              If you have a TV repair shop nearby, call and ask them if they will solder it back on.
              I have a PC shop but they couldnt do it for me and the nearest TV repair place is 30 mins away for me so Looks like im gonna have to do it myself

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                #8
                Re: 8800gts cap broke off

                Your card is messed up.

                Just look at the fan. Dirty.

                If you would remove the heatsink you'd see heatsink completely clogged.

                GPU chip died most probably. You would need to reflow it.

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