Thread: Motherboard capacitor arrived away, could this be the trouble

Well a few months ago I began toacquire random freezing for a second or 2, sometimes it does nothappen for hours. then today I was affording my computer a via cleanout within and discovered a small 1.0V capacitor at the bottom of thecase, the computer functions fine, but I am thinking that this is thecause of the freezing. The computer boots fine and functions fineexclude for the occasional freezing. It is may be obvious that it isthe cause, but anyone confirm?

It's kind a snapped clean off, the pins are gone, and it's actual tiny, do not also experience where it fell off from, I will may be finish up attempting to keep it rear with if I can detect where the dam thing fell off from.

Yeah, I imagine if the cap has fallen off the "stop the computer freezing spontaneously for 2 seconds then acquire it going again without a hiccup" part of the motherboard then you are spot with. That would be extremely likely to cause the matter described.

Well, if its one of a row, I could watch it not actually causing a trouble until it arrives to a point where he requires a large power draw for some task. It tries to dump everything that power, doesn't acquire what it requires and freezes. Wish you are extremely diligent with a soldering iron.

Therefore after contacting Gigabyte, it explains a some troubles. the capacitor that fell off I placed it to be below the PCI-E sockets with the far left of the motherboard and detect it that it is segment of the with board Audio, which I have been including matters with and it explains why.

Now I am guessing that it is causing the random or occasional freezing because I suspect it is the audio drivers or audio system freezing or crashing. I had thought that it was the audio that was doing it as soon as it began happening, this has only firmed up my thoughts.

Guess I am going to be acquiring a sound card in the almost future or pulling one out of my old machine. Thanks everything for the assist, I may be would not be soldering or welding anything rear with like it's a small tricky to do with such a small capacitor and the location it's in.