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Dummy Ram blank?
azith28
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Hi,
I have a laptop that developed a problem with one of its ram bus slots. It has 3 slots, and unfortunately it was the middle one that was causing issues. I removed the stick of ram and the laptop works well now (well slower but well enough). However occasionally due to the design the lack of a middle ramstick causes one of the other sticks to fall out of its slot. Is there such a thing as a ram stick that does nothing that would trigger the bus problem but fill the gap?
Thanks
I have a laptop that developed a problem with one of its ram bus slots. It has 3 slots, and unfortunately it was the middle one that was causing issues. I removed the stick of ram and the laptop works well now (well slower but well enough). However occasionally due to the design the lack of a middle ramstick causes one of the other sticks to fall out of its slot. Is there such a thing as a ram stick that does nothing that would trigger the bus problem but fill the gap?
Thanks
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You might also check on the Ars Technica subforum Agora Classifieds. They have a thread there for freebies where people with spare random stuff that isn't worth selling just give stuff away. Someone there probably has been hoarding some RIMMs.
I had to some actual RIMMS once at my previous job to give a memory upgrade to an aging PC and it was heinously expensive for the capacity. Indeed.
fakeedit: Damnit, I just remembered I had 2 continuity RIMMs I'd taken out of that computer on my desk there for like 2 years that I used to occupy my hands while browsing the web or whatever. They're probably long gone now since I haven't worked there in almost 5 years.
Those old things won't fit into any modern board. rambus ram was keyed differently than SD RAM (the competitor at the time) was.
But I don't think those ever came in threes so it was my misread.