🚀 go-pugleaf

"Ben Siegrist" <ben@bhcomp.com> wrote:
>[...] The
>solution we found is to add the memory before installing the motherboard.
>The stress of adding memory, because the sdram sockets are so tight, appears
>to have caused this failure  (probably stress cracks in the traces).  This
>means to upgrade memory we will need to remove the motherboard.

I hate DIMMs for this reason.

I do have some solutions, though.

One is to place something such as a pencil under the DIMM socket.
The object just needs to fill the space between the motherboard
and the bottom of the case.  You can then insert the DIMM without
bending the motherboard.  Then remove the pencil (or if you find
a nice non-conductive spacer that won't rattle around, you can
leave it in).

Another thing I noticed is that virgin DIMM sockets are the
hardest to push a DIMM into.  After you've inserted a DIMM into a
socket once, it gets easier to do so in the future.  So something
you might try with a new board is (with the board not yet
installed) shoving a DIMM into each socket once to loosen them
up before setting up the final memory configuration.