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Hi All, I recently upgraded my Mac Mini (A1347) to a SSD, unfortunately I seem to have knocked off the last to capacitors next to what looks like a battery (CMOS). They are in a row of four, obviously it’s a row of two now for me. lol ;( I have looked online but cannot see why these are there and where to get a replacement. The Mac oddly seems to run fine without them, although the start-up chime now only happens intermittently so I’m guessing they have something to do with the internal speaker? Sorry if this has already been answered I couldn’t see a post for the same issue only another really small capacitor or transistor above the battery. I’m not a fan of Mac OS, but you can’t deny this is the nicest looking computer inside and out. There is literally a mm of space between everything although that’s probably why I now have loose components rolling around my desk! lol
Update (01/22/2019) OMG! Thank guy’s. :) I’ve taken both sides of the board and where the rail of caps were.
Update (01/22/2019) Thanks guy’s really apricate the help.
They are capacitors for sure, but it would be needed a couple of pictures of the board with their original location to be able to tell what they’re there for and give you the exact specs for replacement. The logic board number would help too for those of us who are not into macminis repairs, it’s printed somewhere on the board and should read like 820-xxxx-x There’s always a bit of redundancy in capacitance on logic boards and that explains why it works even without them. However a replacement would be definitely be recommended.
The four caps are setup in parallel with each other so the load is split across them. You really don’t want to run the system this way as the remaining caps are not a rated for the full load they are now taking on.
Update
Pads still there!
