Hello everyone,

Ok, so this TIME i have a really easy thing to ask you guys. Nothing that's going to take months like most of my problems.

I have a picture that you can see of a capacitor on my secondary video card (a little blurry, sorry). Now, i'm pretty sure it's blown, but you guys can confirm that for me. If it is, where can i get a replacment? Any chains you guys know of that sell them?
I was looking a little bit online, but things were listed in pf and mf, radial and axial, i was just getting confused, and i don't want to buy the wrong thing. So can you guys sort of inform me of what all that means?

On my capacitor it says it's 1000uf and 10v. Thanks

[recovering SPACE - attachment deleted by admin]It has a bulge even through the blurrieness...
REPAIR Shop is your best bet.There's a conversion chart here...

Any radio parts shop should be able to supply a replacement, don't know where you are located but look for RadioShack in your area. Be very gentle when soldering.

Good luckAll right, Thank you Dusty, that site even says radial is a capacitor where the leads are both on one side. I suppose that's what i need.
Thanks patio, but seeing as i got this video card for free in the first place, i think i'll AVOID paying someone else to do it.

That was quickI hope you have better than average soldering skills so that card doesn't wind up toasted...remember to mark the polarity on the board before removing the capacitor. the capacitor will have a stripe indicating which lead is the negative lead. capacitors are polarity sensitive and will NOT work if the polarities are reversed. also take NOTE that there are many heat sensitive components on the video card, so only keep the soldering iron in contact with the solder joints for as long as you need to. and one more additional note, keep your solder joints clean!, you do NOT want to short anything by having your solder joint cross over another circuit on the PCB.

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but things were listed in pf and mf,

radial and axial