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Busted a cap, Now it doesnt work

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I stacked up some junk ontop of my videocard, and one of the capacitors popped off. Its a metal can type capacitor.

GeForce2 GTS 32mb

Capacitor:
220
330
6E

It says C810 next to where the cap used to be, if that helps any.

I have no idea what those numbers mean. Im sure its not a 220V 330uF capacitor. The videocard makes my computer beep now that the cap is gone. What could the value possibly be?
 
You broke your card, every little thing on it is important to make it work...

Good Job :D
 
Try to bring the broken capacitor to a electronic shop to find out what kind it is.
Then you can buy a replacement cap and solder it onto it's rightful place on the
card. :p
 
Hate_Bot said:
You broke your card, every little thing on it is important to make it work...

Good Job :D
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hahahaaahaaaa what a dickhead post but it was damn funny lololroflcopterlolroofies!! :D
 
Dontcha just love the "I broke a part off my card, now it don't work...why??" threads...

As pointed out earlier, you should be able to match that component at any radio shack.
Weather or not you have the soldering skills to replace such a component on a multi-layer PCB is another story...

Good luck. I give you a 1 in 50 chance of making it work again.
You may as well start shopping for a new card...
 
yes..and the capacitor will probably cost more than the card's worth hehehe

just get a geforce4 or something
 
you broke your flux capacitor..

aZn_plyR said:
yes..and the capacitor will probably cost more than the card's worth hehehe

just get a geforce4 or something
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yep, old piece of junk, time to upgrade!!
 
If this were a 6800 Ultra or a X850 I would tell you to try and figure out a way to get it working but you could probably find a better card than that POS on eBay for $40 or less.

Do games even play on a GTS? I remember Max Payne 1 having trouble running on my GeForce DDR, would hate to see FC/D3/HL2 lurching along on that thing.
 
That would run Half life 1 and cs 1.6 and quake 3 or whatever just fine :)
 
Im trading this card plus a cd writer for a PII-450 with 512Mb of ram, case, and PSU. Considering a 256Mb stick of ram sells for over 50$ on ebay, and how I sold my last Emachine 400mhz Celery for $130, you tell me if its a smart Idea to toss this card, and loose out on a potential linux server/Counterstrike server worth about $150 rather than replacing a 10 cent capacitor.

I have enough capacitors laying around to fix anything, and then some. Hell, I could get almost $100 out of the ram.

I cant belive you people. Ever play GTA3, Vice city, Mafia, C&C Generals? these games haul ass on this card. A Geforce 4Mx sucks almost more balls than a Geforce2 ultra, and priced higher.

Upgrade? Well, I have a 6600GT coming from the 'Egg along with a new mainboard, S939 3000+, 1Gig of mushkin, and a 160Gb sata maxtor.

Actually, I did try Farcry on the Geforce2 ultra. YAAARRR comes to mind as my phrase. This card can do nearly 1700 in 3Dmark 2001 ;) hella tite dood L33t ect ect ect...

If anyone wants to offer some usefull help as to what this cap could be, or how to figure it out...
 
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