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12-16-01, 04:48 PM
This is what happened. A few weeks ago I picked up two Slot-A 750 T-Birds (for $23 each!) and decided to open one up. This was going to replace the extra working K6-2 PC, so I wasn't very worried about breaking it. Never underestimate Murphy's Law. Never.
I opened the case and proceded to seperate the PCB from the backplate. I should have seen the "slip, scrape, ping!" coming: the pliers I was using sliped, scraped part of the PCB (where its just green) and then popped off the capacitor (?) circled in the picture below (if it got attached). Being so tiny, it went flying far enough to be lost forever.
The strange part is that the CPU posts, boots Windoze, and is 100% stable; this is due to the redundancy of the several rows of these caps under the cpu, as they all (28) are in a parallel config.
What I need help with is finding out either if I really need this cap or the rated microfarads of this capacitor so I can replace it. I'm assuming this is a cap because the resistors are labled Rxxx and this is labled C138. These caps have direct leads off of them going to the two farthest-right slot pins (with the g-fingers on the upper-left). I wanted to modify the multiplier/core volts using the resistor soldering method, but I'm not sure if this would create a problem since the cap is missing.
I opened the case and proceded to seperate the PCB from the backplate. I should have seen the "slip, scrape, ping!" coming: the pliers I was using sliped, scraped part of the PCB (where its just green) and then popped off the capacitor (?) circled in the picture below (if it got attached). Being so tiny, it went flying far enough to be lost forever.
The strange part is that the CPU posts, boots Windoze, and is 100% stable; this is due to the redundancy of the several rows of these caps under the cpu, as they all (28) are in a parallel config.
What I need help with is finding out either if I really need this cap or the rated microfarads of this capacitor so I can replace it. I'm assuming this is a cap because the resistors are labled Rxxx and this is labled C138. These caps have direct leads off of them going to the two farthest-right slot pins (with the g-fingers on the upper-left). I wanted to modify the multiplier/core volts using the resistor soldering method, but I'm not sure if this would create a problem since the cap is missing.