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Missing RV360 cap.

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DragonMaster

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One of these caps fell off when changing the thermal paste, any ways to find a solution? :

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Find some1 who can do surface mount soldering. I could take care of it no problem at my work as long as I knew exactly what part it was or had thee exact replacement part available.
 
Uh, for the price of someone to solder it (unless you know someone to do it free) any really junky (think Radeon HD3200) will beat an old 9550...
 
Find a buddy who is really experienced in soldering and has some experience hard-modding consoles and see if they could do it for you for free -- otherwise find out how much they'd charge you. ;o
 
Drakan is right. Unless you have a friend do it for free it could be lotsa money. If you get a replacement part for it, you could ship it to me and I'll fix it for you at no cost. Soldering is what I do. ;)
 
The card is an ATI-built 9600 XT All-In-Wonder (I found a 9550 closeup picture, they use the same GPUs), I don't know if ATI is really helpful on support... IIRC, it's the HP-kind almost-automated answers we receive from AMD/ATi. The problem is that they're the only ones that know what parts are on the GPU core...
 
OK, got the answer from AMD, it's some confidential information apparently, they won't reveal what it is...
I found a cap under the card that looked the same between a power plane and a large trace, it's probably there for ripple filtering, I put it in place and installed a larger SMD capacitor to replace where it originally was, and I got no changes, the card still outputs random blank blocks.

It works very well, but in 3D games, there are spots that flash intermittently, and there are much less artefacts when I lower the memory speeds. I tried bending the card, and squeezing the GPU on the card while it's working, and it seemed to reduce and increase the amount of flashing blocks. Looks like it might need to be rebaked or something.

I'll first try it on another computer, 'cause my mobo has a VIA KT266A chipset, and that could explain certain things...
 
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