I'll try to make things clear.
First of all I'm NOT an EE, I did have some private lessons when I was 10 and studied electronics a couple of years.
I agree with
james.miller that it's a
(Sorry couldn't find enough SM capacitors)
candy7man24 what has your teacher been smoking?...I want some
.
In this crappy pic (My digicam is kinda dead, so I used a VHS camera with a cable that's way too long and I didn't feel like moving it, it looked good on my TV) you can see that the resistors are marked, and that the caps (in the red ovals) are brownish (Like james.miller said), you can also see that the 'cap' from OC Noob (Marked blue) doesn't have a marking (the quality of his pic is better than mine).
Conclusion: It MUST be a capacitor, or the manuf. tried to fool you....but I don't think they do that anymore, these days they use FPGAs and ASICs to prevent others from copying their product.
Tracert to measure the capacitance or resistance of any part you'll have to remove the part, as it might be in paralell with something else (You could cut the traces, but I doubt you did that..let alone remove it as it's pretty hard to remove it without damaging it).
OC Noob I would get a 10nF capacitor as it
most likely won't do any harm.
BTW:I was able to find a partial schematic of an 8500, but unfortunately it's useless
