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Old 02-23-2007, 10:50 PM   #2
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It's probably just an aluminum electrolytic capacitor. The first row of numbers is just the lot number, second row says it's 330 microfarads, and the third shows it has a 16 volt rating. As long as it's running okay without it, there's probably no harm done. I know that sounds dumb because you'd think every component on there has *some* purpose. The thing is though, it might just be something minor like a noise filter capacitor. That's usually all that caps are used for....noise filtering and power storage for circuits that need a little extra boost every now and then. There was someone else on here awhile back that had the same thing go wrong.....knocked a cap off but the card was still working fine. I haven't read anything else from that person about it going bad yet either, so I assume it's still working fine.

And no, knocking a capacitor off isn't likely to cause a fire on your board. If it was going to do something like that, it would've likely already done it while you were running it in Windows and SWAT 4. My own personal opinion would be go ahead and use it unless some other symptoms show up (i.e. video problems, reboots, etc).
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