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Resistor removed, what to do?

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unhappy_mage

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Hi guys,
My brother has a 9700 pro, and he just got a zalman vga cooler. In the process of taking off the stock heatsink, he stuck the card in the freezer and pulled the sink off (straight off, no twisting). Looking at the bottom of it, though, he noticed a little dot embedded in the TIM. It was a resistor from the core. Here's which one it was:
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Original image here

So, what to do? Ignore it? Replace it? Screw it? Is this a lost cause, or is there hope?

Also, could someone with a multimeter check the resistance of this resistor? If we try to replace it, it'd be nice to use the right thing.
 
Arent those soldered on? If they are its gonna be tricky to solder it back on. I would try and reuse the one that came off. Have you tried running the card without it?
 
You should take a close-up picture of the problem and circle where the resistor is so it can give us an idea.
 
Mr. Stryker said:
You should take a close-up picture of the problem and circle where the resistor is so it can give us an idea.
Click to expand...

Ignore that- the pic wasn't there the first time i came to this thread, lol.
 
It is (was) indeed soldered on. It would really be hard to resolder it, but I'm wondering if it's going to kill the card to have that missing. Any ATI insiders here?
 
Well, he went ahead and installed the cooler and turned it on. He's playing HL2 right now, so I guess it's working. Thanks anyways.
 
Shouldn't cause too much of an issue. those caps are usually really tiny values, pico range. Just there to help clean up noise.
 
In all honesty, a lot of those resistors are 0ohm, especially on the top models.

I know on the NF4, the only difference between the NF4, the NF4U and the NF4SLI are just a couple of 0ohm resistors, the NF4 missing two (SLI and SATAII) and the U missing the SLI resistor. The problem can be remedied by reconnecting the two nodes with some conductive paint...but yours is still probably connected in some manner (half the resistor).

As elfletcho also said, it could be a pico range cap just for noise.
 
Thanks for the replies, guys! Glad to hear it's nothing to worry about; as I said earlier, it's working fine. Seems your theories are correct.
 
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