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X800XT-PE capacitors

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Limp Gawd
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Hey there folks. A friend of mine was having a few problems with his PC and asked if I could take a look at it. Well, I took his PC home and it seems to be having all kinds of BSODs attributing to the video card. I popped out the card and figured it could be a heat issue as I know ATI tends to goop on tons of thermal interface material on their cards. Well uppon inspecting the card before I took off the heatsink I noticed that there is a row of capacitors that seems to have been knocked off the board. I know they were on the board because there is little slivers of solder left on the pads. Here are a couple of pictures depicting the situation.

Picture of front of card...
http://img58.imageshack.us/my.php?image=022300060ll.jpg

Close up of the bank of missing capacitors...
http://img58.imageshack.us/my.php?image=022300074jj.jpg

Since be bought this card second-hand a year ago, he has no warranty. Is there any way to figure out what capacitors are used in this situation and have them re-soldered back on? Also, the first picture shows a number hand written in gold pen. I have never seen this writing before except for beta cards that are sent out to reviewers. Would this mean that this card could possibly be a beta card that ended out going back to ATi for RMA and somehow got recirculated back to the consumer market? I would greatly appreciate any help with this. Thank you!!!
 
I would suggest soldering some 100nF ceramic caps in there. Maybe 10nF.... they will mainly be for decoupling or some filtering, and not 'too' critical of value.

Try 10nF caps first. Then see how stable it is. If still unstable, try some different values, up to 100nF.....
 
I'm bumping this because I need some advice other than just guessing and soldering until everything seems ok. I appreciate the help sev, but I don't want to ruin the card by soldering and resoldering different caps and trying them out.
 
First off, Are you sure there should be caps there?
Can you find a reference pic to confirm?
Second, How could that row be missing?
What would cause all the caps there to go missing?
 
Majin said:
First off, Are you sure there should be caps there?
-- The desginator on the board CXX gives it away on that one.

Can you find a reference pic to confirm?


Second, How could that row be missing?
-- Looks like they have been knocked off dude to poor handling, or installation

What would cause all the caps there to go missing?
Click to expand...
-- As above
 
I have a BBA X800XT PE with the stock HSF. The capacitors/resistors (I think they are resistors, but could be mistaken) are present on my card. They look just like the ones in the C22, C25 locations. I would try to get money back for the card is trashed. If that doesn't work you would have to find a donor card for parts from someone else, or contact ati for the parts or at least part #'s. Good Luck
 
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