please help with gforce mx440 64 meg

External Since: Jan 24, 2004 Posts: 1

did something real stupid I think.
I was adding round cables to my mobo,
After I finished I found laying under the vid card on the bottom of
the case a tiny round , loos like a capacitor, The size of a pencil
eraser.
marking are
22
16s
2p2
exact size of a pencil eraser.silver top is 1/2 silver and 1/2 black,
bottom is plastic with two conectors and no sighn of solder.
Everything works and benchmarks as it should. Did notice when I
powered down the machine the speakers farted. That has stopped, card
is running cool. I think it had to come from the vid card as all of
the other capacitors have the same exact collor markings. Should I buy
a new card or just use the thing and see what happens, Very difficult
if not impossible to tell where this thing was attached..
thanks in advance,call me what you will as I deserve it

External Since: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 530

On 24 Jan 2004 17:33:26 -0800, debschummer.DeleteThis@YAHOO.COM (Louie) wrote:

>did something real stupid I think.
>I was adding round cables to my mobo,
>After I finished I found laying under the vid card on the bottom of
>the case a tiny round , loos like a capacitor, The size of a pencil
>eraser.
>marking are
>22
>16s
>2p2
>exact size of a pencil eraser.silver top is 1/2 silver and 1/2 black,
>bottom is plastic with two conectors and no sighn of solder.
>Everything works and benchmarks as it should. Did notice when I
>powered down the machine the speakers farted. That has stopped, card
>is running cool. I think it had to come from the vid card as all of
>the other capacitors have the same exact collor markings. Should I buy
>a new card or just use the thing and see what happens, Very difficult
>if not impossible to tell where this thing was attached..
>thanks in advance,call me what you will as I deserve it

Get a bright flash light, and look at every inch of all your circut
board hardware to see where it might have come off. Small ones are
not exactly easy to knock off unless theres constant force... for all
you know, you had a cable pulling on it, and when you pulled the cable
out - out came the capacitor.

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