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I Could Not Leave Well Enough Alone!! Broke Capacitor Off Of My Hyperx BH5!!!

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JohnPaul

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I have two sticks of 512 HyperX with what I am now positive is bh5. Too bad I broke a little resistor or whatever it is on one of them, after taking off the heatspreaders to make sure they were indeed PC3500 chips with bh5 on them. After putting the hs back on, I put them back in my rig and tried to power up. Nothing! So after checking they were in correctly, I took them apart again and found that on one of them, a little resistor looking thing right above the actual chip had broken off almost all the way. I touched it and it fell off.

I then taped it on there temporarily with electric tape(hackjob), at least until I get some suggestions on what would work here. It actually works fine like this, but I need something more permanent. I know soldering is and option, but it is so tiny that I do not know how well that will work, since I am not the best solderer around.

I wish I could link to a pic of it, but I sold my A70 last week and do not have a spare camera around at the moment.

Well, any suggestions? It is one of those little resistor that each chip on the stick of ram has two of I believe. I am so pissed off at myself!!!!!!
 
Find someone who can solder well? Small surface mount resistors are a real pain to solder, but it can be done.
 
Yea, I was going to try superglue in the morning, but I do not know if that is a very good permanent fix. I guess you are right though, since it is working with tape, than superglue should be fine. maybe I will try that tomorrow, since I do not have any around.
 
Ha, I know exactly how you feel.. I broke several resistors off my Radeon 9700Pro a while ago. Tried soldering / supergluing, but its as good as dead. Makes you regret from playing with the damn things in the first place!!!

Hmm, if I were you, I wouldn't even venture into supergluing. If it works fine with tape, why not just leave it like that? It's not like you carry and move your computer on a daily basis (or do you?) Thats just my 2c... unless you are absolutely sure it's an easy superglue job, don't do it. Superglue is very, very permanent.
 
I've used a learn-to-solder kit that uses the SMD (Surface Mount Device) parts, and they actually recommend a tiny amount of glue to hold the pieces in place while they are soldered fast. So you can probably do that - a little bit of glue, and sometime soon, get it soldered in place. Just do not use too much solder or else you'll wind up with a real mess.
 
Well, I superglued it 10 minutes ago and it worked fine. I cannot believe I was able to glue that teeny-tiny thing. It was unbelievably small and quite titious. It was about the length and width of the eye of a needle, and was just as hard as you would imagine it to be to line it up without dropping the thing and losing it forever. Well, I will never do something that stupid again!! Who am I kidding, yes I will.

BTW, as long as it stays and gives me no problems, I will probably leave it this way, sans using solder and screwing what works up.
 
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Not really. They still work fine, and now I know for sure that both my 512 sticks of Hyperx PC3500 both have BH5 in them, and I got them on sale for $200 for both sticks. Now if I would not have been able to fix them, it may have then sucked to be me.

BTW, I found out that it was a capacitor and not a resistor that I managed to break off.
 
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Well, I superglued it 10 minutes ago and it worked fine. I cannot believe I was able to glue that teeny-tiny thing. It was unbelievably small and quite titious. It was about the length and width of the eye of a needle, and was just as hard as you would imagine it to be to line it up without dropping the thing and losing it forever. Well, I will never do something that stupid again!! Who am I kidding, yes I will.

BTW, as long as it stays and gives me no problems, I will probably leave it this way, sans using solder and screwing what works up.
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I'd still recommend solder. 🙂
 
I recommend you try it with some super fine wire. Solder one piece to each end of the capacitor, then those pieces to the pcb. I've done this before on a Playstation-mod-gone-bad where I knocked off a surface mount resistor, and it worked out in the end...

EDIT: If you can figure out exactly what type of capacitor it is, then maybe you can try to fix it with a non-surface-mount capacitor using the method I described above.
 
Unless it gives me any issues the way it is now, I think I will likely leave it the way it is, since it overclocks just as well as it always has, and I am afraid I will lose that capacitor since it is so damn small. It would be a pain to replace since there is really no way to be sure exactly what its specs are.

BTW, do you guys foresee any issues as far as the superglue goes, like it drying up and becoming brittle?

If I had a smaller soldering tip and some really fine solder, not to mention some soldering expertise, I would entertain the idea of soldering it, but................eh
 
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