/vr/ - Retro Games

Yesterday I noticed my SNES developed the faint vertical bar problem on the video signal.

I read online you can mitigate this by soldering a capacitor at the voltage regulator and S-Enc chip, and so I did, I started with the regulator, and as I was double checking my work, I noticed that the O pin was showing continuity to ground. I'm no electrician, but isn't this a bad thing? I thought something was wrong with the capacitor I used, so I took it out, then checked again, and it still was showing continuity, double checked to make sure the pins were not shortened too.

This may be a stupid question, but is this a normal thing or is it a sign that the regulator itself is bad? And if so, am I better off replacing the whole thing instead of using the capacitors?