Graphics Card Repair Guide

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Wanda

Ok, if this is all beyond you and you don't have the the tools available; where would one look to find a place that will do the repairs?

Someone with a soldering iron and some soldering skills should be able to help you with it.

[boggy98]

Took a while and finally found this forum. Hopefully you guys could help out with a problem I have. A cap broke off my video card and is lost... Any idea where I can find a replacement online?

The other caps read and should be the same type and look like the attached photo:
1 J
220
16V

thanks

[DaveRL]

I have a XFX 8600GT with several blown cap's. I've looked out on the
mouser.com and other sites but I haven't been able to find the same
markings.

Two Types:
FZ74 1500 6.3V
FZ74 1000 6.3V

All have pins through board

Also the printing on the cap is light blue (not black)

Thanks in advance for the help figuring out the correct
replacement parts.

[empire23]

Originally Posted by boggy98

Took a while and finally found this forum. Hopefully you guys could help out with a problem I have. A cap broke off my video card and is lost... Any idea where I can find a replacement online?

The other caps read and should be the same type and look like the attached photo:
1 J
220
16V

thanks

If you can find the broken off one, you can just solder it back on and it should be fine if your solderwork is decent.

You can find a replacement online from Mouser.com

The charateristics i can give you are
- 8mm pad SMD
- 220uF
- 16 Volts
- Low ESR

Good brands, Nippon Chemicon, Nichicon, Rubycon, Elna, Vishay Roederstein or Cornell Dubilier.

Try searching with those stats, if you still can't find em, if i'm not too busy i'll run by mouser.com and see if i can look for anything.

Originally Posted by DaveRL

I have a XFX 8600GT with several blown cap's. I've looked out on the
mouser.com and other sites but I haven't been able to find the same
markings.

Two Types:
FZ74 1500 6.3V
FZ74 1000 6.3V

All have pins through board

Also the printing on the cap is light blue (not black)

Thanks in advance for the help figuring out the correct
replacement parts.

FZ, seems like cheap china sacon capacitors to me. I assume they're through hole mounted and not SMD capacitors from what i recall about them.

Generally you can replace them Panasonic/Matsushita FM series of capacitors. You can grab em at Digikey.com if i recall correctly.

It should 1500uF 6.3v and 1000uF 6.3v with a diameter of 5mm. If the FM series doesn't have the correct diameter, try the FC series of capacitors.

Which reminds me, maybe i should write an article regarding IDing capacitor charateristics.

[sstott]

I have a capacitor that broke off my video card. The legs broke off or I would put it back on.

I have been trying to find one online but have not found anything

A 4N1
180
16V

Can someone help me find one of these?