yeah the day I noticed something was up, i pulled the card out and havent tried it since. thank you for the info on digikey I'll deffinitly check it out. there are 2 different size capacitors on the card, 3 of the ones im having trouble with, and 6 FZ76 1500 6.3V so I should replace all of them?
Ill go ahead and skip the details of how I managed to discover the busted cap, and get to the nitty gritty. I have a e-geForce 8600 GTS (not that i know what any of that means, who knows, maybe itll help me find some answers) and when I opened my PC up and looked at the card it seems to have a busted cap. the cap seems to have almost "popped" as in.. the top of the cap is pushed open slightly and there is some fibery stuff comming out of it. I figured that this was the cause for my distress. the top of the cap has some numbers on it hopefully they will help me get some answers. The numbers...
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