Capacitor snapped off of my GeForce 4 Ti4600

[BadMrFrosty]

Hi, recently I purchased a new PNY Verto GeForce FX 5900 Ultra to replace my GeForce 4 Ti4600, so i replaced it, when i took out the GeForce4 Ti4600 I must've bumped a capacitor or something because it fell off. Its a purple capacitor, it says Sanyo, 105 ' C and 510/4 (OSCON) on it, the card still works (sort of) it works until you launch any 3D application and/or when it just feels like stop working. My question is, is it worth trying to fix it? Im not much of an electrical guru, with solder and components and et cetera. PNY has been absolutely worthless in terms of getting a replacement, they claim that im not the person that bought this video card, and that I should be able to produce a reciept from something i bought like 2 years ago. I wont be buying another PNY card after this.

The capacitor broke off at the legs, so the legs are still sticking out of the solder pts. I guess its an old card so thats good, but i'd really like to keep it because it ran Star Wars Galaxies just fine and i was going to put it in a box for my alternate character.

Any advice?

-Drew
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Drew,

Your topic is not appropriate for this forum. You also posted this in our Video forum. That is one good place to post it. If you do not get good answers, there, try posting it on our Technical Support forum.

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[DrPizza]

whoa... it just snapped off? From being bumped?!

Anyway, shouldn't be too hard to replace it if you can find another capacitor with the same capacitance (take it to radio shack, they should be able to help you)

It'd be a piece of cake to solder one on - make sure you don't use too powerful of a soldering iron, and use a very fine point. You don't want too much excess heat around the points.

 

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[BadMrFrosty]

Yep, just snapped right off, the problem is, I dont know what to get. The guys at radio shack tried to sell me a cell phone when i took your suggestion and ran across the street to ask them what kind of capacitor it is.

Its purple, it says Sanyo OS CON 510/4 105' C i'll paypal someone $10 if they fix it for me

-Drew
BMF