Hey folks,
Just got my raspberry pi about ten minutes ago here in Canada, and while everything worked when I plugged it in and ran Debian off my SD card, when I unplugged it from power the small capacitor (attached next to the micro USB power, labeled "C2 C3 C6" on the board), which was just barely soldered in in the first place just upped and broke off. Luckily the power was off so I'm assuming the board is otherwise OK. I was able to retain the cap (but not the black base it was attached to).
Has this happened to anyone else? I suppose if something *has* to break on the board the little capacitor is probably one of the better ones -- I've done some (through-hole) soldering and have access to people who are surface mount soldering wizards, so if it's something that can be fixed locally I can probably swing it. Or if the capacitor isn't *strictly* necessary I'd like to know that too. Thanks.