Took out ram stick and put it back in, now comp won't detect

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-08-21 07:10pm

Fooling around in my tower, I took out a stick of 512mb DDR333 ram by popping the two holders on the top and bottom, mostly just to look at it and see if it was corroded or coated with dust, as I've been having ram problems of late. Seeing none, I put it back in correctly, but couldn't get the holders to snap into place over it. (the 'prong's the holders latch onto are sticking too far out.) I've tried pushing it in more, but I don't want to damage the ram.
Any ideas?

Post by **Beowulf** » 2005-08-21 08:03pm

Push harder. It's fairly difficult to break a stick of RAM this way. Most of them actually take a bit of force to push in.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-08-21 08:14pm

Ahh, there we go. It took ALOT of force, actually, I was afraid I was going to snap it in half. Thanks Beo.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-08-21 08:24pm

Yeah. I always feel like I'm gonna break something whenever I do it.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-08-21 11:06pm

Small tip my dad gave me today regarding cards and RAM, plug-ins like that-- often if something's not functioning, open up the tower and wiggle them a bit, then push them in a little more firmly. Worked for me-- got my video card back online...

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2005-08-22 04:41pm

Captain tycho wrote:Ahh, there we go. It took ALOT of force, actually, I was afraid I was going to snap it in half. Thanks Beo.

What did I tell you in the SDN Chat? Apply force to both sides evenly. If that doesn't work, use brute force, and if it still doesn't work, you're not using enough

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-08-22 05:00pm

Exonerate wrote:
Captain tycho wrote:Ahh, there we go. It took ALOT of force, actually, I was afraid I was going to snap it in half. Thanks Beo.
What did I tell you in the SDN Chat? Apply force to both sides evenly. If that doesn't work, use brute force, and if it still doesn't work, you're not using enough

Somehow, that goes *so* beautifully with your sig...

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-08-22 06:27pm

Ha! That's awesome that you were able to muscle it in. I was going to go the doom-and-gloom route and say "Did you make sure you were grounded when you did it? It only takes a very small amount of ESD to ruin something like that forever." MUAAHAHAHA....err....sorry. I'll just be going now.