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shykel

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I recently replaced the cooler on my VGA card, but upon removing one of the shoddy screws, I accidentally chipped off one of those rectangular things. It doesn't seem to effect my computer at all unless I'm playing games; I play games a lot and the only fault it gives me is it crashes for like 5 seconds and my screen goes black but comes back on saying it crashed for a bit, but one time the computer shut down and rebooted because of it so I decided to stop playing games completely until I attempted to fix it with a soldering iron.

Is playing games with this fault really damaging my card? Will soldering this thingy back on fix everything?

thanks!
 
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getochkn

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probably a cap, that while isn't directly inline for power, is there for filtering the power and with the "dirty" power getting through, it's causing the card or the ram on the card it malfunction. Things like RAM and CPU cycles all depend on a very certain voltage to cycle and store and process information. Caps can filter or clean the power so it's more consistent to what is needed.

If you have it and you're good with soldering, you can try to put it back. Not for the easy solder job though sometimes. Hope you still have it because trying to find a replacement would be almost impossible since you don't know the value of it.
 
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I recently replaced the cooler on my VGA card, but upon removing one of the shoddy screws, I accidentally chipped off one of those rectangular things.
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Oh my.
And now it is acting weird when you use the GPU functionality.
Yes, I'd say that whatever you broke off serves a critical function.

The card is already damaged. Depending on your soldering skills, you can try to put it back on. See what happens.

It's already broken. Can't get much worse.
 
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shykel

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alright thanks guys, it's just annoying having to wait 5 days until i can play games again
It doesn't seem too bad like if i played skyrim for 20 hours, it would only do it once if that, i'll let you guys know how it goes
 
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just have to be good at soldering. don't knock any other components or touch them with the iron, get the cap to stick down while heating the solder on the pads and not ripping the pads off. not getting too much soldering and bridging components.
 
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