I’ve been working on computers for years, laptops more recently. I went to do a RAM upgrade on this guy and swapped a 2GB for a 4GB, only when I went to put in the 4GB I noticed unusual resistance trying to put it in, completely bizarre. Anyways on closer inspection it looks like a plastic clip that holds the frame and what not…right inside my ram slot?
I mean it doesn’t even look possible it looks super-positioned, and I have no idea wtf is going on. I’ve tried “picking” it out, but its like attached…very strange, pls send help =]
Could be a case of “slot designed for one-sided ram module”.
Where you can fit a module with chips on only one side. If you want to put a module with chips on both sides, bad luck.
it falls into the slot everwhere it should, except for where zszywany circled
no marks on the chip, but when i go to insert it, itll make crunchy noises if I force it
i could basically push the right side down and in to that clip, but the ram is not inserted properly because of the protrusion on the other side. It is blocking the bottom part of the ram from even being accepted into theslot
ill try picking at it again, but for a piece to fall in just like that doing a ram upgrade like 1/10000000, anyways i will attempt to pick it out again, just worried about damaging the slot
Are either of your DIMMs missing a surface mounted component? Maybe this is something that came off and then was wedged into the SO-DIMM slot when you tried to insert the new (4 GiB) DIMM?
Or maybe from the motherboard itself?
Can you give the model of the laptop? I would be curious to check an iFixIt or other guide and see that for comparison.
remember how i said those odds…welll it was exactly that…truly godmode luck on that one, i was able to slide it over to the side (broken plastic clip) and get it out, lost it though, Thank you everyone for your help, weird stuff is weird =]
