Small Bit Fell Off My Gp2x Board.

[FFNoir]

So anyway, I pick up my GP2X today to discover a small rattling. Curious, I opened it up only to have a small black rectangular bit fall out with "C106" on it. Anyway, I put it back together, booted up and it works fine. Should I be worried about this?

 

[sehs33]

I don't know what is the C106, but I know many people had faced simillar transistors rattle in their Gp2Xs, and all of them ended talking to ED and solved their problem (either by telling them what to do, or by fixing it for them), if you can't wait for ED to reply to this (it is new year's eve in Germany too ) you can check the following things to make sure nothing major was destroied:

1) Overclockability
2) Power through PSU and batteries
3) Speakers, check for noise or if both stereo/mono are working well
4) Videos, if they are stable
5) Vektar demo, it has parts of the code especially wrote for GP2X's hardware
6) Picodrive, use the other core for sound emulation
7) Any other tests you might think off

 

[Robster]

In case you're interested, the "C106" part will be a tantalum capacitor, 10 microFarads. It'll be a power supply smoothing thing, and although your GP2X will probably run seemingly fine without it, it will probably behave strangely in certain (unknowable in advance) circumstances.

It's definitely not meant to happen, and you should either solder it back in, or send the GP2X back to where you bought it from for replacement or repair.

 

[FFNoir]

I'm past the 1 year warranty, and I dunno where it's supposed to go on the board.

 

[sehs33]

I hope this can help you know where it should go:
http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,23,1570

edit: also try checking the board itself, many chips names are written to it, so you might find a C106 writing with nothing beside it, or look for two tiny dots for what appears to have been soldering one day.

 

[FFNoir]

hmm, I'll get to trying to locate where it fell off later. I still don't know how i'm going to solder it back on. It's so tiny... I don't think I have the skill or precision to solder on something that small.

 

[sehs33]

Check any shop that provides services like fixing mobile phones, this should be a piece of cake for them, but you will have to guess were should it fit first.

 

[marco0551]

Same happened to me. Everything is still working.

Here is a picture:

Edit: Something weird was with the picture. :gp2x

The Blue circles are missing. I'm missing 2 of those. I think

Ehhhh the picture is 2272px × 1704px <_<

 

[sehs33]

Same happened to me. Everything is still working.

Here is a picture:

http://img127.imagevenue.com/view.php?loc=...0_122_370lo.JPG

The Blue circles are missing. I'm missing 2 of those. I think

Ehhhh the picture is 2272px × 1704px <_<

The link only points to different images for a blonde lady? :blink:

 

[Goity]

Massive bump I know, but I have this same problem. the C 106 circled in red has come off, and so has the headphone jack. Should I try to solder these back on? the C106 looks like it could be a real pain...
http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/4144/gp2x1.jpg

 

[cowai]

Goity: Both things came off for me too!

A cellphone repair man can solder them back on without any problems. That's how I got rid of the problem...

 

[Exophase]

If only GPH knew how to solder things in the first place