26th October, 2011, 12:38 AM
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| GeForce 8800 Uh Oh! A student gave me an old GeForce 8800 I think its a GT or GTS anyways, I took it out of the bag and a little solder joint rolled out with it. it was a very tiny cube of solder. So I started looking around on the card and found that it connected the joints to a capacitor (I think) on the other side. Looks like the joint was holding the capacitors two solder joints. So my questions is.... Will this be a problem? Are these 100% necessary? Should I try the card or am I going to destroy it? Should I give it to Wonderbread?
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26th October, 2011, 03:50 AM
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| Are you sure it is just solder? I am no electronics expert, but normally you would see lots of tiny silver cubes on the back of the card. I think these are transistors.
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29th October, 2011, 09:33 PM
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| It would help to carefully examine these "cubes of mystery" under a magnifier. Probably better not to install the Vidcard before seeing wth these things are.
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30th October, 2011, 06:03 PM
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| Hmm, I'll have to scan it an show it to you both... if they are transistors... then they are extremely tiny
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30th October, 2011, 09:36 PM
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 Hey Booman, here's some pics of the 8800GTS which was the card I was using before I replaced it with the GTX 470 SC.
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31st October, 2011, 04:49 AM
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| Pretty close to mine... Here is a close up of the part that fell off and the part itsself.... I have a feeling its a transistor. What can I do?
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2nd November, 2011, 09:22 PM
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| It would be very helpful if you know how to successfully solder Surface Mount Components at this point. Sorry, I don't know puzzactly what kind of gizmo it is, but don't plug the Vidcard in until you've re-soldered the traitorous little mutha.
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3rd November, 2011, 10:14 PM
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| exactly, that is what I'm afraid of too... I don't even know which way to solder it on. I'm sure that I can look at the other 50+ transistors and align it the same way, but I don't even have a soldering iron small enough.... So I'm giving it to Wonderbread and we'll see if he can manage to get it working.
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9th November, 2011, 02:15 PM
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| I've received the card from booman. When I can get the right sized soldering tip I'm going to give it a shot and put the resistor back on. I'll take some pics just before I do it to make sure I will be doing it the right way. stay tuned.
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10th November, 2011, 06:01 AM
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| it worked... I forgot to take pictures. sorry. I'll take a pic this weekend when I have some more time. Its a sloppy solder job, but it works!
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14th November, 2011, 08:09 PM
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| that is stinking amazing! Its should last you a few years before its totally absolute! But you can still play thousands of old games with it
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8th December, 2011, 02:47 AM
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| Wait till you hear about Wonderbread's update.... the card is goin-south
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8th December, 2011, 04:43 AM
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| Its not what I thought it was booman. I had a little bit of time to troubleshoot to find the root cause of the problem because what I thought was strange was that the picture on my second monitor was perfect. So I plugged my Wife's laptop into my main screen and still the lines showed so I knew then that the card wasnt the issue. I unplugged everything from the monitor and let it sit for 5 min, plugged it all back in and everything is good again. Now my question is, and I hope Gizmo sees this cause I have a feeling he will be able to give me an answer. Are the lines shown in the picture a sign of caps going bad in my monitor? I'll have had it for a year in January. I haven't yet looked up too see if there are know issues yet.
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9th December, 2011, 06:03 PM
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| Cool and not Cool. I'm glad the 8800 is still working, but it sucks when your monitor is crapping out. I havn't seen artifacts like that. If its capacitors, then you may have some more soldering to do. I'm assuming its an LCD?
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9th December, 2011, 06:08 PM
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| yes, 23" lcd I picked up at fry's back in January.
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11th December, 2011, 02:42 AM
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| So it's an intermittent prob with the monitor? Or did the unplug/replug maneuver fix those uncute lines? Hope so!
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11th December, 2011, 03:39 AM
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| unplug/replug + power cycle the monitor seems to have remedied the issue for now, but I'm afraid the issue will come back when I least expect it.
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12th December, 2011, 02:29 AM
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| that is pretty strange. You can also discharge the capacitors by unplugging the monitor power and then press the power button.
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12th December, 2011, 08:47 PM
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| My previous monitor suffered from some kind of glitches. It's always possible these things are bugs in the panel's firmware.
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13th December, 2011, 04:17 AM
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| the problem hasn't reoccured yet. I'm perfectly happy...until it happens again.
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