Has anyone ever seen a pin come off a stick of RAM?

Stonedofmoo · 17 Sep 2008 at 07:52

I'm just working on a friends PC. It's been unstable since last week so I've taken it apart to swap out parts and find out where the problem lies.

After testing the memory and trying it in each slot I suddenly found I'd lost 2Gb of it. On closer inspection it was easy to see why.

Check this out, I've never seen this happen before!

and now the missing piece, still in the slot

How odd is that. The slot still work fine but it's damn hard trying to get the bit of copper out.

waso_dude · 17 Sep 2008 at 09:07

i've seen it a few times with older cheaper ram.

good luck getting it out. Try folded up paper

MooMoo444 · 17 Sep 2008 at 09:36

Tweezers

Stonedofmoo · 17 Sep 2008 at 09:43

Or a hoover!

jrwagh333 · 17 Sep 2008 at 09:53

Stonedofmoo said:
Or a hoover!

+1. i huge powerfull one

bledd · 17 Sep 2008 at 10:12

glad i don't have that to deal with tbh :S good luck!

tigerstyle · 17 Sep 2008 at 14:13

I've thrown around old and treated it like crap before, still works fine!

bad luck there!

MoRT489 · 17 Sep 2008 at 14:33

looks like a decent camera u took those pics with, what is it?

Stonedofmoo · 18 Sep 2008 at 07:32

creed said:
looks like a decent camera u took those pics with, what is it?

Yeah I was quite impressed. I reduced the size from the originals too. Full res they were clearer still.

It's a Canon SD870 IS which I bought refurbished from a well known auction site. They are called 'Ixus' in this country.

PaulyD · 18 Sep 2008 at 08:45

Never seen that happen before but not suprised its not happened more often!

matthew2456 · 20 Sep 2008 at 12:15

you could make that work again if you had some time, get the bit of copper out, superglue it back down.

Take off the soldermask from the track going from the via to that pad and solder it up

Major_Disaster · 20 Sep 2008 at 14:17

Heh, never seen that before (and i hope i never do with my pc!)