Damaged capacitor, should I worry?

[Farinasaur]

What does exactly the capacitor on that image, right under Supreme FX audio chipset does?



I've noticed it was bent, tried to fix but it pulled out from the motherboard. Everything is working fine so I don't know what it should impact...

[Korth]

I don't know the "exact" function of that capacitor. It is adjacent to the Supreme FX Audio circuitry, which suggests it's part of the audio filter/amp circuitry.

Does your audio sound "damaged" on any of the output channels?

What are the part markings on that capacitor, what does it connect to when following the PCB traces, are there any other markings on the PCB which help identify it?

And which motherboard is that?

[Farinasaur]

Korth wrote:
I don't know the "exact" function of that capacitor. It is adjacent to the Supreme FX Audio circuitry, which suggests it's part of the audio filter/amp circuitry.

Does your audio sound "damaged" on any of the output channels?

What are the part markings on that capacitor, what does it connect to when following the PCB traces, are there any other markings on the PCB which help identify it?

And which motherboard is that?

It is an STRIX Z270i (Mini ITX).

I was able to insert it back since the pins still on the motherboard. The audio was perfect, this afternoon the PC started to freeze and the audio got some noise but after a restart everything went back to normal.

On the PCB, everything leads me to the Audio. Would ASUS let me RMA this or it will be considered my fault? lol

[Korth]

Farinasaur wrote:
It is an STRIX Z270i (Mini ITX).

I was able to insert it back since the pins still on the motherboard. The audio was perfect, this afternoon the PC started to freeze and the audio got some noise but after a restart everything went back to normal.

On the PCB, everything leads me to the Audio. Would ASUS let me RMA this or it will be considered my fault? lol

The larger (EATX, ATX) Maximus/Strix Z270 mobos have space for many capacitors where your mini-Strix has only one.

You'll get intermittent electrical contact (and probably eventual failure of this component, and possibly eventual failure to other attached audio components) until the cap is properly soldered in place - it's probably better to actually leave it out of circuit until this is done.
It's also best to replace the cap (which costs something like $0.25) with a new and preferably identical part.

I don't work for ASUS, I don't know if they'll honour RMA on this mobo. It wouldn't hurt to ask them directly (and point them to this thread).
Replacing a capacitor onto PCB is a fairly trivial sort of repair for any qualified electronics repair place. "Qualified" meaning they aren't limited to just swapping modules and boards, they can actually show you some components they've soldered into circuits, lol. Non-ASUS service may void your warranty (which isn't much good if you can't use it anyways, lol).

If your onboard audio is shot (and ASUS refuses to repair it) then you can always use other audio. Mini-ITX may or may not have a spare slot for a sound card. But it probably does have spare USB ports, you could use an external (USB) DAC+AMP instead.