Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: finding used RAM

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 1/7/07, Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I know what you are saying about the little piece of plastic on the
> motherboard, but I also know what I saw, he had the sticks in backwards AND
> clipped in their sockets. He did say it was really hard to get them in. I
> would have thought he either had broken the memory or the motherboard
> getting it in that way. Most certainly I thought it would have fried the
> motherboard or the memory.

That's amazing.  When my buddy installed his '486 backwards, it let
the smoke out.  I notice on my motherboard, a series resistor on each
line, to prevent reflections.  Maybe those resistors keep the current
from getting high enough to burn something.

Here's what I've been doing with RAM this evening:

http://vivara.net/images/memstick.jpg

That's a 512MB stick, and the wires are bigger than the pins I was
soldering to.  I'm trying to tap the I2C bus going to the little
EEPROM on the corner of the stick.

Regards,
Mark
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