Caporegime
It’s likely a rail smoothing cap, it won’t be required for operation, but could lead to unintended voltage fluctuation, so I wouldn’t personally run it until you’ve had it fixed.Yep, I’m not going to attempt to do anymore. I found a guy locally who says he can replace the rest for me. My equipment is too poor and my hands are too shaky.
I wanted to test the board to make sure I hadn’t cocked it up - it works perfectly fine without the single 1500uf 6.3v capacitor that was next to the northbridge. I assume this acted as a filter or something for it? I guess long term it’s not sensible to use it without the capacitor in place - but it is working without it