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Old video card
- Thread starter Chelinkas
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As you don't show much in the pic and you don't say what "fell off"....impossible to say what you should do with that BFG GTX 260
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- Dec 6, 2010
That is most likely a noise filtering capacitor, there are lots of those on that board, missing 1 should not effect it all that much, all these parts on the back and front are very fragile so be careful when handling them.
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- Dec 6, 2010
Screen may jump a bit or lines moving up or down the screen, should be minor. Nothing is shorted so your safe there.
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- Dec 6, 2010
Sorry no, 1 of the 2 copper square pads that the part is soldered to has pulled away from the board.
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- Sep 25, 2015
If you've never done any sort of board repair before...don't attempt it.
And...that card has a lot of "gunk" on it.
(Also - this is why I like cards with backplates...don't have to worry about accidently knocking one off).
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- Dec 6, 2010
That is a surface mount capacitor. The silkscreen printing next to it says C750, where C is standard for a capacitor and the number might be arbitrary or it is the 750th capacitor in the board design. You may not have any problems but it's hard to tell without knowing what purpose the capacitor plays in the circuitry. Discard the little piece from the board before you power it on if it is stuck to the bottom of the board 
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- Dec 14, 2010
Yeah, upon looking closer it looks as though there's corrosion or some sort of water damage (maybe just from condensation or moist air) around some of the capacitors near the GPU core.
