Loose Ram Slot

[Amraks]

Is there anywhere that will sell the actual ram slots?

I have this motherboard with a slot that is loose and its causes start up issues. once I take it away the problem don't occur, so its not the ram because I tested it for awhile in other slot.

Now someone must know where I can get these so I can fix it and its a good board I wanna save it for a media center.

[t.j.]

Re: Loose Ram Slot

jack one from another board if ya got one! what ram is in machine! differ slots!

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/DIMS-168-CES-...item19b714b395

[b700029]

Re: Loose Ram Slot

"loose"? What do you mean exactly?

If it's the soldering that's loose, a little bit of hot air reflow will fix that. If it's something to do with the plastic, epoxy might fix it.

If all else fails, and you don't want to buy 320 of them from the link above, look for "DIMM SOCKET" on ebay/digikey/mouser/etc.

[999999999]

Re: Loose Ram Slot

same question as b700029, is there evidence it is mechanically loose or is it just a conclusion based on the slot causing problems with memory in it while the memory tests ok elsewhere?

Assuming this is a laptop, one common fault I see every now and then is water/liquid damage. Someone spills liquid on the keyboard and it finds its way to a memory slot directly below and either the liquid or flux residue remaining on the parts causes corrosion which can sometimes be cleaned off, though more often than not when this is the problem the memory itself is damaged too.

[Junk Parts]

Re: Loose Ram Slot

I have a board here with the same problem. My brother busted the slot trying to seat the ram. I have another that was killed by mouse piss.

[Amraks]

Re: Loose Ram Slot

I have a board here with the same problem. My brother busted the slot trying to seat the ram. I have another that was killed by mouse piss.

Its not doing what it was doing now.

But thank you for your replys and maybe this thread will help someone who is looking to fix the sockets.

I had no clue, I was searching on ebay for ram slots, so they are called sockets.

its a pc not a laptop.

[999999999]

Re: Loose Ram Slot

^ Being a PC, the topic might be in the wrong subforum.

If all else fails, get a dead board from somewhere (yours, a friend's, ebay, local PC shop throwing it away, etc), put a couple of pieces of masking tape on the sides of the slot to form a handle to pull with, flip the board over and move a torch back and forth to melt all the solder to release the slot.

Some practice with torch flame size, distance, and time heating helps. Try not to catch the PCB on fire, that kind of stinks (I'd do the work outside at the very least). The more tedious part is getting the memory slot off the otherwise working board and clearing solder out of all the holes to get the replacement slot in.

I'd start to wonder if you really need the slot working for a media center, generally that sort of use doesn't need a lot of memory nor high enough memory bandwidth that it wouldn't work if loss of a slot meant running in single channel vs dual channel memory mode. An exception might be if it is an older lower bandwidth memory type like DDR(1) or older and has integrated video using a portion of the available bandwidth.