A few days ago my PC shut-down, as did one of the fuses for the house. This was accompanied by a nasty burning, ozone smell. I reset the fuse, plugged in the pc, and the tower wouldn’t light up. The monitor and speakers, on the same cord board, powered up, but not the tower.
I cleaned out all the dust I could find, and tried again, but no luck. I couldn’t find any burn marks, but I figured it must be the PSU. So I ordered a Sonata 3 complete with an earthpower 500 watt PSU.
My new stuff arrived today, and I began pulling out my mobo to put it into the new tower, when I found a loose component rolling around in the old tower. To my ignorant eyes it looks like a tiny capacitor and it has written on the top:
6P
100
EZA
There are three more of these on my Asus 7900GT, so I figure that must be where it came from, but this leaves me with two questions.
1/ Would this missing component cause the whole PC to not start up? Have I found the cause of the problem and can I assume the old PSU is still ?
2/ Can this component be soldered back on, or I do I need a new graphics card?
