capacitor

So I was using my pc and suddenly a balck screen came up. I was using VGA port on my motherboard. I taked a look and saw two of SMD capacitors behind the VGA port were busted. It has a DVI port too which is still working can I leave dose capacitors unrepaired and keep using DVI instead or even...

Hello everyone. To start off, I am not too knowledgeable at this. Earlier today I was doing some rocket league on my desktop with others and randomly in the middle of the game my computer like shuts off instantly. I thought huh maybe something happened, so I try to push the power button to turn...

I knocked a capacitor off from my graphics card while installing a new water block. I’m having trouble finding a replacement. It’s a J270 233 16v. Any idea where I can look for a new one? Any help is appreciated.

I have a PC that I have been using for a long time. I recently moved it from one house to another but I was very cautious as I do this often. However, when I turned the computer on, it fully booted into Windows then there was a loud pop, followed by the PC shutting down. The computer then...

I moved my computer back to my house today. It had previously been working perfectly fine. However, when I booted it up after moving it, there was a loud pop sound followed by the computer completely shutting off. The computer then rebooted itself and managed to fully load into Windows. I turned...

Hi, I was working on reapplying the thermal paste onto my gigabyte gaming oc 3070 and noticed one of the capacitors fell off the board. Should i try and find a place to fix it or can i live without it?

Imgur gallery of blown capacitor Hi all, thank you for reading. I recently turned on my workstation and heard a loud pop and a smell like fireworks, turned off the machine and unplugged everything. Quick visual inspection of the motherboard revealed a capacitor that blew its cap right off. I...

Hey all , so i open my case to remove my motherboard and clean it kind of , when i remove it one of the capacitor just dropped , the capacitor was already bent badly but i was using it very normally with my gtx 970 , anyway when i removed everything and put everything back , my pc turn on...

So i got a broken laptop (a hp pavillon 14 ce0006np) from a friend for free, so i checked to see if i could repair it, hoping it was just a component or ribbon cable. The laptop had been dropped and the hinges had taken some damage, but i got them off. btw, there is a "system board failure" as...

Hello, thanks for reading. I deshrouded my gpu today. One of the fan cables was difficult to pull out of the card once it was removed from the header, and it required that I pass it through a narrow opening. Unfortunately, in doing so I accidentally bent one of the capacitors on the gpu. I heard...

So today i was cleaning my pc, and my GPU is a bit 2 big for my case, and while I was installing the GPU back again one capacitor just fell off, I went in panic cuz I didn't know that capacitor job on the MOBO. But I hooked everything up again and PC was running well, did some bench marks and...

I’ve been trying to diagnosis some blue screens and errors on my computer lately, I’ve got RMA’s in for my gpu, ram, and cpu - but upon taking everything out today - I saw this liquid looking like it’s coming from a capacitor. could this be my culprit? View: https://imgur.com/a/8O2ikV4

Hello, I wanted to clean my pc today, and as I opened the case, at the bottom there was a capacitor from my mother board, as I look i found where it should be placed (there were prongs still on motherboard) and i just popped it back on those prongs, started my pc and all was good stress tested...

Symptoms: A] I am unable to finish making an image of my operating system with True Image. After doing from as little as 20 to as much as 75% of it my hardware just completely turns itself off or the software spits a generic error [of being unable to finish]. Mind you that this is my ~30th...

Ive got an old Asrock agp8x p4i65g motherboard that has 4 16v 1200uf bulged capacitors near the cpu.When powered on the psu and cpu fan spins for less than a second and shuts off. What is the purpose of those capacitors? After replacing them all with new ones the issue still persists.Please help.

This has gotta cost like a dime, and yet a replacement board would entail losing my original vin and would cost like ~$500 So I'd very much appreciate anyone's help in identifying this pcb part. It's very small and appears to be tan/brown colored? (The one circled in white) I believe it's...

While taking out the cpu cooler i accidentally damaged a capacitor right next to the cpu. Can i still use it like this with no harm or will i need to get it repaired or replace motherboard? View: https://imgur.com/a/VVaWlxH

So, I am new to this whole soldering game as well as motherboard electronics along with board circuits. Excuse my ignorance if I call something the wrong name or give an incorrect reference. I have Dell 1545 motherboard and I am learning how to follow the power path and checking capacitors to...

Hello everyone! The other day I was cleaning my graphics card, during which I realized I have accidently managed to rip off one of the capacitors as well. After contacting the manufacturer, I was able to identify the exact model number of the Capacitor. However, I can't find it anywhere online...

I already asked this question on reddit but I didn't get many answers.... a year and a half ago I decided to change my processor which was a pentium g5400 and I changed it to a core i5 9400f. when I went to remove the aircooler, I had a lot of trouble removing the pins, at the time I didn't know...

In the middle of installing arch linux i heard a strange noise coming from the mobo i thought it wasnt from there and ignored it but today i was cleaning the case and the cooler a capacitor fell off the board My mobo is ASUS M2N68-LA cpu : athlon ll x4 635 2,9ghz and the place where the...

Hello, when I took my cooler off I noticed that the Vrm capacitors had slight movement. And upon closer inspection there seems to be a scratch on the paint of one capacitor and seems like a dent (haven't seen it upclose yet). The rest seems fine aside from the slight movement it had when the...

My pc restarts itself during sudden power cuts all tho it's connected to ups/inverter, it really annoying specially during intense co-op sessions. so can good psu stop this from happening under load/gaming? current psu - antec neo eco 550w bronze 80+ (all tho my pc don't face sudden restart...

Hello everyone, I just received a motherboard, it should be brand new but because the box looked old, unsealed and a slight tear in the anti-static bag, i did some close inspection. I found one of the capacitors to look damaged. Would this be an issue in the long run? I'm not sure if it works...

My power supply Corsair CX750 (grey) , immediately popped when I pressed the power button. It is now dead and with a paperclip test, the PSU fan doesn’t start. How it happened was I was playing valorant with my friends and I accidentally stepped on my surge protector’s power switch (I’m going...

I have electronic devices from 1990 and I know that these devices that have not been used for a long time cause faults and depolarization in the electrolytic capacitors, is it necessary to use these devices in the interval of 1x a month to preserve the electrolytic capacitors from failing due to...

A friend of mine gave me an EVGA GTX 1070 ti with a missing capacitor from one of the power phases on the board. I'm afraid of testing the GPU without the capacitor. I'm not into this that much, but I want to try and replace the missing capacitor on the board to see if I can fix it (and have a...

Hi, I was trying to add a GPU into my PC but I bend one capacitor from where the sound processing happens in. Now I don't have sound in my pc. Can I fix it?

This is my 6 years old MSI GTX 970, last night there’s a yellow sparks came out from my CPU. A slight second before that, my PC suddenly turns off on its own, I guess thats an automatic safety measure (?) Then came the yellow sparks. I plugged everything off, and open my case, unplug my GPU...

Hello guys, first of all, excuse me for any mistakes in english and for the big text. I would like to come here to ask for help related to my Asus GTX 750TI. I was using the computer normally, and then it restarted unexpectedly and I could see a light and smell of burning coming from the gpu...

Hello I would like to start with I am new to posting here, but have visited many times over the years to troubleshoot other pc problems of mine. So to start off I recently bought an AMD XFX Radeon 6970 2GB GDDR5 under the condition "Untested". I of course knew this GPU was probably broken but I...

Hi all, Hoping someone who is well-versed with Capacitors may be able to assist with this one :) My Samsung 26" TV has suddenly stopped working - even the red stand-by light doesn't come on. It appears that the capacitor shown in the attached photos is the culprit, based on the bulge I can...

Do the audio capacitors on a motherboard matter and can i see a difference between them? I saw one motherboard from ASrock have 2 of them and another one from Asus have 4. Do they make any difference?

I just found a broken capacitor in my case after hearing something rattling around in my case when toting it around. I'm not sure what to do about it, the computer seems to be running fine still. I've never soldered and don't know much about capacitors and the like. Should I have it fixed or...

Hello everyone, I got this issue (most probably) while fitting the video card in mi motherboard, a Gigabyte 990FXA UD3. I ripped off 1 resistor and 2 capacitors out of it. I already know I can buy the 2 capacitors and have a professional sold them back. What I dont know is if it would be...

Hi, I'm having a failure that I think it's the motherboard. It's and old MB, with 80 GB IDE HDD and IDE ODD, 2 GB RAM DDR2. It has a few Electrolytic capacitors and 4 or 5 are swelled. Maybe this is the reason it is failing? The failure consists in after a few minutes of turning it on, the image...

About a month ago, my dads PC had a blown capacitor while I was using it. We sent it off to be repaired as we had warranty and got it back yesterday. What can I do to prevent a capacitor from blowing up again. I do not know the make of the PSU as it was prebuilt by PCSpecialist (on the invoice...

i accidentally broke capacitor beside display ports in gtx 1050 asus single fan named "pcm3" 2.5 v ,surprisingly it works ,temperature is fine too ,what worst can it happen ?

I was installing a waterblock on my gpu (2080Ti XC EVGA) and after removing the cooler (not forcing it and taking my time) I noticed something fell off the pcb and I think it was a capacitor, what should I do??? This is the image of the capacitor. http://imageshack.com/a/img924/2452/2RoOdE.jpg

Hi guys, this is the first time I post on this website, asking for some help. I own an Asus Rog Strix 2080Ti GPU, and I decided to buy a custom water cooling from EK. Everything was fine, until I tried to install the waterblock for the GPU, by mistake, I broke a little piece located on the top...