How to replace capacitors?

[AirGibson]

Is it difficult to replace capacitors such as this?

Rather than wait 2 or 3 weeks on having to ship my video card around to get some faulty capacitors replaced, I'm considering doing it myself. I've done some basic soldering in the past, but didn't know if this would be difficult.

The capacitors' "cylinders" runs all the way down to the black bases. Am I supposed to only "pull off" the cylinder, or the black base and the cylinder?

 

[Schadenfroh]

RMA it and wait, tampering with it yourself will void your warrenty. if they find out

 

[amdskip]

Too risky IMHO and it will be costly if you screw up.

 

[AirGibson]

*sigh*

You all are right. I just shipped it off. Gotta put up with crappy frame rates for another week or two

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Too risky IMHO and it will be costly if you screw up.

Now if the board was out of warranty...

I did one motherboard that had some leakers. Took about an hour total, $6 worth of caps, and the sense of accomplishment I felt after seeing it boot up the first time was worth risking the $40 or so the board was worth.

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: AirGibson
*sigh*

You all are right. I just shipped it off. Gotta put up with crappy frame rates for another week or two

Aww.... that's too bad, I was just about to write up a full tutorial and make the work look like it came from the factory....

Oh well.....

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: motoamd

Originally posted by: AirGibson
*sigh*

You all are right. I just shipped it off. Gotta put up with crappy frame rates for another week or two

Aww.... that's too bad, I was just about to write up a full tutorial and make the work look like it came from the factory....

Oh well.....

Well, nobody's stopping you... The ones I replaced weren't SMT like the one in his pic, so if you've got some good SMT techniques we'd love to hear 'em.