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An odd request
'Lo all,
A friend of mine fried his GeForce TI4200 AGP. Yeah, bummer. The problem seemed to be related to using an under-powered power supply. Anywho, he gave the card to me, then moved to Death Valley (he's in the Army and got restationed there). Looking the card over, there's what appears to be a burnt out thingy (I think that's the technical term for it) near the top. The thingy looks like it could be unsoldered and a new one resoldered on. Problem is of course that going into a Radio Shack and asking for a thingy will just get me weird looks.
I've tried searching the net for a diagram of the board design but no luck. Anyone got any ideas on this? Oh, and btw, I checked PNY's website. Ironically enough, the card's got a lifetime warranty. But you gotta have the receipt. :P
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Can you post a picture of the card with said thingy showing?
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Hmmm, no it's not a capacitor thingy. It looks more like one of the flat thingies that next to the topmost blown capacitor. Um, weird. I modified the blown capacitor picture, circling the part I meant but I can't attach the picture to this post, I get an error message saying that the max file size for that attachment is 1 byte and my file is 25k. Any ideas on why it's doing that, NooNoo? I'll try and post a picture of it when I get back from doing some chores. Thanks for the assistance. :thumbs2:
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You need to link to your picture from your webspace - if you do not have webspace then pm me and will see what I can do
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Ah. Nope, I don't have any webspace (I know it's easy to get, I'm just uber-lazy). In the picture that Archer posted of the motherboard, it's one of the flat thingies to the right of the blown capacitors. Is that a transistor (he asked, showing his complete lack of electrical knowledge. Obviously, it's a thingy.) If nothing else, my roommate is a manager of a Radio Shack, I'll ask him if they carry anything like this.
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voltage regulator is the word you are looking for. Just make sure you get the EXACT same one.
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Ah, thanks Gollo. That makes sense, seeing as how it was most likely caused by under-power-supplying it (I think I just coined a new term, no?). If it works, I'll be sure to tell ya.
