On April 1st, 2009 I have purchased a Sapphire Radeon HD 4350 512 MB HDMI from an italian store. I used the videocard for some time until it got faulty so I put it aside and I didn't use it anymore until now. When I picked it back I found on the backside that near the pci-e connector there was a missing smd capacitor:
After getting some old spare broken pci-e graphics cards, I finally found a compatible capacitor (measured with my capacitor capable multimeter) so I struggled a bit but finally soldered a new one in that same spot:
checking out afterwise for shorts, and not finding any, luckily.
But the card won't work anyway, so checking around I found this other problem, maybe, that is what it seems to be a broken smd resistor (or resistance?):
I tried to ask directly to sapphire support, but they denied to let me know what value is R32, so: can anyone help me?
I was thinking that if someone have the same card, they can try to measure it, but I don't know if it can be measured without desoldering it from the board: maybe it would be worth if your card doesn't work anymore but the resistor is still good.
I know it's pretty hard to answer me, but maybe I can revive my card and not waste it (and save money also).
Thanks in advance.
After getting some old spare broken pci-e graphics cards, I finally found a compatible capacitor (measured with my capacitor capable multimeter) so I struggled a bit but finally soldered a new one in that same spot:
checking out afterwise for shorts, and not finding any, luckily.
But the card won't work anyway, so checking around I found this other problem, maybe, that is what it seems to be a broken smd resistor (or resistance?):
I tried to ask directly to sapphire support, but they denied to let me know what value is R32, so: can anyone help me?
I was thinking that if someone have the same card, they can try to measure it, but I don't know if it can be measured without desoldering it from the board: maybe it would be worth if your card doesn't work anymore but the resistor is still good.
I know it's pretty hard to answer me, but maybe I can revive my card and not waste it (and save money also).
Thanks in advance.