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how F'd am i??

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evga pci-e 6800gt

on the top right of pic, by the pci-e power connector, a cap or something snapped and is hanging on by a thread. what is that and how screwqed am i? anyway to fix it or do i have to rma? i'm afraid to even move the card for fear it will just fall off.
 
my bad, hit enter by mistake instead of tab

edit-its the large round one on the edge of the board directly under the power connector.

 
i'd have to charge up my cam and i'm kinda afraid to move the thing. in the pic above its the only large silver cap thing on the far right of the board, i/2 way from the top.
 
thats my next step, just didn't know if anyone knew what it was and how important it is or if its an easy fix or rma material. i'm using it now so it must still be making some contact and the temps are fine and all. it appears to be normal.

i guess i'll call evga because i know the next time i move it it will come off.
 
My guess would be the capacitor is used to buffer the electric current from the power connector. In that case, if it is broken, your card might still work in 2d mode, but when it starts sucking up the juice in 3d games, it will get artifacts or crash, or worse. Anyway, if you can rma it, definitely do, no point risking to fix it yourself.
 
Remove the card from your system if you have not already done so and do not try to use it because if it isn't already totally fried, you could ruin it by trying to use it. You likely can solder it back on but that will do little good if you burn out the card.
 
yeah, evga says its an rma but that it wouldn't hurt anything to use it? they say the worse that would happen is it wouldn't function properly. i just don't want it shooting to many volts through it and taking out the card and the mobo or more.
 
damn, i wish all vendors were as easy to deal with as the evgas and neweggs of the world.

getting thru to a real human at evga took like 2 minutes each of the 3 times i called them. rma no problem. beautiful.

i had kinda resigned myself to having to pay for a repair but they told me to just rma it 🙂
 
is it above the connector or below

round the power connector....the silver object is indeed a capacitor, you'll need that. but if its above the connector then that is actually a buzzer. i found this out the other day when i forgot to plug in the power to my 6800GT it buzzed at me rather loudly. so you dont really need the buzzer
 
Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
is it above the connector or below

round the power connector....the silver object is indeed a capacitor, you'll need that. but if its above the connector then that is actually a buzzer. i found this out the other day when i forgot to plug in the power to my 6800GT it buzzed at me rather loudly. so you dont really need the buzzer
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he already said below
 
took the card out after getting the new one and it is just the capacitor lifted away from the pcb on one side. it actually has a square base which is what "snapped" away from the pcb and i can kind of push it back down but it doesn't stay down completely, kinda springy. anyway its labelled

A nv4
180
16v

the card still runs like a champ, seems a shame to send it in and have them junk the thing. i wish i could get a decent pic of it. i dunno would a decent solder job fix it or is there a chance other things underneath the base seperated as well.
 
Bought an MSI 5900 refurb from the Egg that had a cap that fell off when I took it out of the a/s bag they had it in. This was a beast of a card so I kept it, first running it without the cap on. 3dMark2003 locked up on the second test every time. I taped the cap back on the card and reran 3dMark2003 continuously for a few hours. No problems, so I took it to a local electronics shop that specialized in surface mount soldering. They charged me $40 to repair the card but it runs fine. Would be tough to sell it once I explained the repair to a buyer, but I can assure you its stable as a rock.

I kept it since it was such a damn cool card, with fans on both sides of the card. Yea, a 9800 for the same price would dust it, but my board has compatability issues with ATI cards so I bought the 5900 instead. No regrets, as its a spare PC, but it runs everything I play at a nice clip.
 
exarkin---sorry, thought i mentioned that in my first post. no it snapped trying to remove the pci-e connector. i told evga exactly what i did and they told me it was an rma.

i guess i'll just rma it. seems kind of wasteful is all if its a simple fix.
 
Originally posted by: WT
Bought an MSI 5900 refurb from the Egg that had a cap that fell off when I took it out of the a/s bag they had it in. This was a beast of a card so I kept it, first running it without the cap on. 3dMark2003 locked up on the second test every time. I taped the cap back on the card and reran 3dMark2003 continuously for a few hours. No problems, so I took it to a local electronics shop that specialized in surface mount soldering. They charged me $40 to repair the card but it runs fine. Would be tough to sell it once I explained the repair to a buyer, but I can assure you its stable as a rock.

I kept it since it was such a damn cool card, with fans on both sides of the card. Yea, a 9800 for the same price would dust it, but my board has compatability issues with ATI cards so I bought the 5900 instead. No regrets, as its a spare PC, but it runs everything I play at a nice clip.
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thats kind of what i was expecting, just pay a repair charge for it to be mounted properly but they told me to rma it. i've been testing it and using it since and it appears fine. the seperation from the pcb is very slight, maybe 1/32" or something. it runs rthdribl and any 3d benches no prroblem and my son gamed on it for like 4 hours straight over the weekend.
 
i asked them to repair it and they said they don't do that? kinda odd to me, where do the refurbs come from them? maybe you're right, maybe they send them out and then sell them for refurbs but send me a new one.

its ok by me so long as ihave a sweet card, 😛
 
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