Broken USB capacitor, resistor or something?

[Des132435]

Evening guys n gals, I hope you are able to help.

 

I recently dropped my USB stick with loads of my uni work on, it wouldnt work when inserted in to my laptop and had a little rattle. Giving up hope I decided to take it apart and see if it was anything I could fix, nothing was loose and the rattle was still their but inside a cyclindrical transistor / resistor or something. I was hoping to be able to take this to my local Maplins to solder and replace it with a new one and hopefully fix it.

 

Trouble is I lost it! Does anyone have any idea what it could have been? I have tried buying a new stick, exact make and model but cant find one anywhere new or second hand. The manufacturer has no support or tech centre.

 

Having read a little about flash sticks I dont know if this is a capacitor or crytal resinator or what. it was quite large, 3 mils diameter and about 8 mills in lenght, tubular with metal casing attached by 2 wires to the PCB board. And obviously quite delicate inside coz this was the little bit which had the rattle.

 

I will try to upload a picture of the stick and the position of this mystery bit soon. The make and model is SumVision SV-U89

 

Thanks in advance

 

Des

[DSTM]

Hi Des Welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.:)

I think your best bet would be to buy another one identical. Not Expensive.

Amazon have them.

Take both to to an Electronics Shop, and let them exchange the parts needed.

Don't try and do this yourself.

[Dalo Harkin]

You will be missing the Crystal Oscillator Crystal oscillator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, they can be resoldered easily

 

 

http://www.premiumusb.com/images/blog/inside_USB_BIG.jpg

[Plastic Nev]

Having now lost that little crystal in a can, things may not be easy. The important detail, the frequency at which it works, may have been written on the side, it is vitally important that a replacement is the same.

One from a different make of memory stick will only be likely to be the same providing exactly the same chips and chip numbers match. Without buying a lot and taking them all apart it is not something you can find out easily.

Just hope you can buy a perfect match to the damaged one. Once you have got that far though it should be possible to obtain a replacement crystal oscillator canister, so you will then have two working sticks.

Replacement though is a fine art of small soldering technique, not to be undertaken by any one with the tremors.

Nev.