Looks like a damage leg on the vga connecter is bad. Also the missing part looks like a titanium smd cap or filter. Can't quite tell. no clue what the rating might be.

I don't understand the question regarding the second pic. Are you asking about the memory heatsinks ("RAMsinks")?

The "thing" that fell off was an inductor (L), which was a part of LC filter circuit for red color signal , the pin that broke off in DB15 connector was used for a green signal line, so you were left only with blue color. Lucky you that the last color signal was intact, else you would get blank screen while testing it (though monitor would still report H and V sync freqs).

And why the inductor is there, it makes a low-pass filter to limit the bandwidth of the video signal, or in other words, make it have less sharp edges.

In theory you could have tested the card by bypassing the inductor with a short circuit and you would have seen red component of the signal as well.
But having a different filter between on one of the red/green/blue components can cause some visible effects you may not want to see in long term.

At least your's was fixable, my Geforce 2 Ultra caught on fire 🤣

candle_86 wrote:

At least your's was fixable, my Geforce 2 Ultra caught on fire 🤣

That's one heck of a hot-running chip 😵

Anyway, you happen to have taken any pics? 😜

I never had anything actually catch fire, but I did get magic smoke a couple times and got zapped once or twice and only had one explosion so all is good.

I don't have any photos, but I had plenty of stuff catch fire.

Jade Falcon wrote:

I don't have any photos l, but I had plenty of stuff chetch fire.

Clean them, excessive dust and electricity is always fun 😁
I usually restrict myself to blowing up the PSU 😢

It's more a result of massive over clocking and not dust