Broken resistors/capacitors on my Graphics card

0ptimal · May 24

I’ve bought this GTX 970 a week ago now and as soon as I received it, I’ve done some troubleshooting and in the beginning, when it wasn’t showing any signs of booting, i thought it just needed a good clean (was pretty dusty and looked like it could use a good cleaning), after cleaning a applying fresh thermal paste, it still wouldn’t boot even though the windforce sign lit up and the fans spun and everything, eventually I identified the problem and the resistors/capacitors sitting next to c810 and c811, as seen in the provided photos, looked damaged and I’m guessing that’s why it doesn’t want to boot. I need help identifying what resistors/capacitors they were, where could I find/buy them and where can I get the gpu repaired, I’m located in the north west region of London. Many thanks for helping.

TetraSky · May 24

You can tell it's a capacitor, by the fact it starts with C.

If it was a resistor it would start with R.

These tiny ones are SMD ceramic capacitor. As for the farads of that particular capacitor.. No clue.

That's it. That's all I have to contribute. I will see myself out.

Blue4130 · May 24

2 hours ago, 0ptimal said:

I’ve bought this GTX 970 a week ago now and as soon as I received it, I’ve done some troubleshooting and in the beginning, when it wasn’t showing any signs of booting, i thought it just needed a good clean (was pretty dusty and looked like it could use a good cleaning), after cleaning a applying fresh thermal paste, it still wouldn’t boot even though the windforce sign lit up and the fans spun and everything, eventually I identified the problem and the resistors/capacitors sitting next to c810 and c811, as seen in the provided photos, looked damaged and I’m guessing that’s why it doesn’t want to boot. I need help identifying what resistors/capacitors they were, where could I find/buy them and where can I get the gpu repaired, I’m located in the north west region of London. Many thanks for helping.

Was it listed as "broken/for parts"? If not, send it back to where you bought it from.