Tiny component came off GPU PCB

[Ad Hominem]

I was trying to put a new aftermarket cooler on my Titan Xp since the stock blower design kinda blows (hahaha, get it?) and is loud as ♥♥♥♥. As I was removing the 4mm bolts (using the wrong tool for the job) when my wrench knocked into a tiny component on the bottom of the PCB, right near where the GPU die is on the top side. It's a tiny rectangle looking thing that appears to be two plates on the outside with a slightly darker, still metallic material in the middle.

I want to say it's a tiny multilayer ceramic capacitor, but I'm not positive since there are no markings on the PCB for it. Right now I just want to attempt to identify what the component is. I haven't attempted to plug the card back into my PC to see if it works, I've read some people have luck with that and others don't after knocking components off. I just figure nothing is on that board for decoration so it would be best not to try and run it until it's fixed.

Why did I try to take a crecsent wrench to a $1200 card, you might be asking? Well that's because I have more balls than brains apparently. I want to try and get this thing fixed up though, and to do that I need to learn what component I knocked off. If it's a capacitor, there must be some way of telling polarity instead of just soldering it on with a 50/50 chance of getting it right. If it isn't a capacitor, the polarity might not matter at all.

[Dr. Fronkensteen]

I think it would be best to take a picture of the card, highlight where the component fell off, and take it to a more dedicated hardware forum.

[Ad Hominem]

Yea good point. I came here first because it was accessible. This is a link to pictures. I'll take it to a more appropriate place though too.

https://imgur.com/gallery/2afSSms

[Elon Mosque]

Originally posted by Ad Hominem:

Yea good point. I came here first because it was accessible. This is a link to pictures. I'll take it to a more appropriate place though too.

https://imgur.com/gallery/2afSSms

Looks like something you can get away with soldering in my opinion.

[Omega]

That is easily fixable. You just need the right equipment to do so.

You should look for a PC/phone repair shop nearby which does component-level repairs.

[Ad Hominem]

Originally posted by Agnes Washington:

Originally posted by Ad Hominem:

Yea good point. I came here first because it was accessible. This is a link to pictures. I'll take it to a more appropriate place though too.

https://imgur.com/gallery/2afSSms

Looks like something you can get away with soldering in my opinion.

Yea probably. I already fat fingered the situation to get here though so I'm hesitant to try. If it's a capacitor too, the polarity is going to be important. If you solder it in backwards and put positive to negative it just wont work. And that's assuming it's a cap. Maybe it's just a fuse, idk, but it looks like the same thing as when I look up images of MLCC (multi layer ceramic capacitors).

[Dr. Fronkensteen]

This guy did the exact same thing you did. May be useful info there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5965f6/i_think_i_might_have_just_nerfed_my_titan_x_pascal/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list

[Omega]

You can't simply throw a soldering iron against it.

Go to a professional and spend $30 to fix the $1500 GPU.

[Ad Hominem]

Originally posted by Dr. Fronkensteen:

This guy did the exact same thing you did. May be useful info there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5965f6/i_think_i_might_have_just_nerfed_my_titan_x_pascal/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, his card actually got better after chipping that piece off lmao. It might work well for a while but I can't imagine it will last the normal expected life without... whatever that thing does.

Originally posted by Omega:

You can't simply throw a soldering iron against it.

Go to a professional and spend $30 to fix the $1500 GPU.

I really am just trying to identify what the component is at this time, and possibly what function it serves on the card. The traces look like it goes straight into the GPU die itself. I plan on sending it to a pro.

Like I said earlier in this thread, I already fat fingered the card to get into this mess, I have no delusions that I will be able to fat finger my way out. I'm more suprised that no one is calling me a dumbass for trying to use a crecsent wrench instead of spending the 6 bucks on a 4mm nut driver or socket. That's the real genius of my situation.

[Omega]

It could be surface mounted inductor, surface mounted capacitor or a surface mounted fuse. And probably a few other things as wel.

There may be a code somewhere written somewhere next to it which indicates what it is exactly.

[Ad Hominem]

Originally posted by Omega:

It could be surface mounted inductor, surface mounted capacitor or a surface mounted fuse. And probably a few other things as wel.

There may be a code somewhere written somewhere next to it which indicates what it is exactly.

I thought that too. There is no code printed or etched on the board that I could see. Other ones that look the same either start with a C or a Q.

[tomk1]

Thats a simple generic ceramic cap, just solder it back on. Any experience tech will have it done in 30 seconds.

[Monk]

That is infact a power shunt that helps limit how much power the card can draw, it's the same component I and others deliberately short to perform a power / shunt mod, so you can probably get away without it.
(All 3 on both my 1080ti's have been shorted with liquid metal)

The real travisty here is that your working on a thousand pound card without spending 2 bucks on the right tools lol

[Viper]

Could actually be a very important componet even though it just looks like a very small rectangular insignificant part. Its in your best interest to replace that before powering on yor PC. I wouldn't take the chance.