And it will be a pain to resolder it. If i reseated it in my PC, will it be OK as long as I dont overclock it. It's a PCI-E card that I really need. Thanks.

[Edited on May 26, 2007 at 7:59 PM. Reason : ]

5/26/2007 7:59:31 PM

they put that capacitor in there for a reason...

5/26/2007 8:07:15 PM

who knows?

no one has a schematic laying around to tell you

if you cant get it back on the card in the correct orientation, any number of things could happen when you put it back in and try to fire it up

5/26/2007 8:07:47 PM

fyi: if you solder the capacitor on the wrong way it will probably explode at the least.

5/26/2007 8:42:36 PM

was it a flux capacitor?

5/26/2007 8:57:00 PM

I don't encourage you to do this... but i've pulled capacitors off TV boards, and the TV still worked fine afterwards.

5/26/2007 9:42:03 PM

if you really have to ask this, then you should not be operating any kind of electrical equipment, much less a computer.

5/26/2007 10:33:08 PM

go ahead and resolder it, or look up its number and order a new one with longer leads

5/27/2007 11:57:27 AM

yeah i ended up resoldering it and i'm getting voltage across it so it seems to be running fine now. its pretty ghetto, since i had to solder two wires between the card and the cap, but oh well.

5/27/2007 12:54:41 PM

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"was it a flux capacitor?"

5/27/2007 1:27:48 PM

sometimes the capacitor fairies just go around sprinkling capacitors on PCBs. you can remove most of them without causing any problems.

5/28/2007 2:45:26 AM

Some capacitors are redundant. Others are merely for added stability. Often you can remove one without ever noticing; perhaps the card causes a software lock-up more frequently, but you'll never know why it froze.

Of course, other times the capacitor is of utmost importance, and running the equipment without it causes harm to other components.

5/28/2007 7:50:58 AM

profound

5/28/2007 7:43:10 PM