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Outstanding contribution.

I like the thought of loosening up the sockets, which should reduce any
failures, if customers upgrade the memory themselves (this was causing me
concern).  I think i'll tell everyone it was my idea...;-).

MMD - Thanks,

Ben Siegrist
B&H Computers
ben@bhcomp.com


Carl Mueller wrote in message <70rqrh$b51@watt.cs.unc.edu>...
>"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.
>