Seems my luck in getting all mypackages to my house intact has ended. I
managed to snag a complete Media 100 video capture board setup for my old
Macs and the person who packaged it didn't do such a good job. I found a few
tantalum capacitors laying in the ESD bag, and on close inspection found
another 4-5 that were lose. I soldered the caps back where they should have
been and then noticed that one of the crystal oscillator had pins broken off
inside the device, plus there is a small brownish surface mount cap missing
next to the oscillator that I could not find.
So I wonder if that small cap is needed for the card to run, and where am I
going to find a new Crystal oscillator to replace the one that is broken.
Anybody happen to have a K1602 T laying around they don't need?
http://www.brookdale.com/champion/k1601.htm shows the part in question. The
frequency needed is 24.545454 Mhz.
P.S how do you read any marking on a tiny surface mount capacitor? My cheapo
magnifying glass didn't show anything, I even tried using a scanner at 1200
DPI and got nothing but a blur. At first I thaught it was a resistor but
the part number C238 I believe must be a capacitor.
Thanks for any help, I would rather get this unit working then have to toss
it (kind of rare) just because of a couple parts.