Hi!
Unfortunately, I damaged one of my favorites graphics card.
It's a Radeon 9700 Pro and I attached some pictures.
Do you think the pads, next to the molex power connector, are damaged?
In these caps, should be soldered a solid cap.
Thank you!
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Looks to me like it should be easily fixable.
The pad right next to the molex connector does seem to be a bit damaged, but it definitely can be fixed nonetheless.
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To my eyes it looks like you can fix that card.
And can the cap be soldered in the pad directly?
One of the legs of the cap removed half of the pad, the other leg of the cap remained in the PCB. Seems it can be fixed, but you'd need a new identical cap. 😀
I'm looking for a cap. I know how to choose. Can I solder the cap on the half of the pad? Is this half pad enough to make the cap work? Thanks!!
Can't 100% tell from your pictures, but it seems the "half-pad" is almost disconnected because part of it is missing. Looks like it should be connected to GND, check continuity to make sure.
that half pad should be fine to solder to, but the thing is it's not on the plane the it's surrounded by, if you look at the good pad, there is no border. snap one of those high res photos of the other side. where the cap was. And yeah, put a multi meter to it and see if you have continuity from any one of the 4 molex pins to it.
