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16th October 2005, 23:42
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 |  Memory contacts One of the contacts fell off of my 512MB stick during removal. Of course, I did not find this out until the horrible "beeping" sound screaming out of the case duing booting process. Lucky me I said to myself; followed by why me? The next twenty minutes I tried soldering; lifting another thin contact from an old PC66 32mb memory in an attempt to salvage the damage - no such luck  Being curious in everything, I used an X-Acto to scrap off a "fine" channel in hope to use a lead pencil trick to make contact - again no such luck. I went to the fridge and pop open a can of beer - went back to the "dead" module after a few minutes of R&R. I continued on the previous failed attempt; I then came to the second layer of the PCB where another layer of copper ciruit surfaces ..... carefully I scrapped off a little more horizontally to "enlarge" the exposed circuit enough that I thought would make "contact"; hoping it is the right circuit at the same time. I popped the module back; turned the system on; closed my eyes and hoped that "beep" sound would not visit my ear drums. It DID NOT ..... system continued on the booting process and I was greeted by "WINDOWS".
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16th October 2005, 23:49
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 | [g]Memtest+86[/g] ... before you lose precisious work from a random reboot 
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17th October 2005, 23:18
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| But, I am talking about physical damage and the cure
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17th October 2005, 23:32
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| yes, but to make sure that the cancer is really gone, run Memtest86, boot into windows != stable system 
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18th October 2005, 00:57
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| It's working just as good as before
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18th October 2005, 08:43
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| that's good news, no pics of the "hacked" memory stick?
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18th October 2005, 16:45
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|  Really a ***** to work with; never had this experience with the contact lifted off of the stick.
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18th October 2005, 18:35
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| aah, one pictures says more than 1000 words, I though one of the resistors on the PCB had been removed
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18th October 2005, 20:36
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| That pin or contact must have been "caught" on the very edge during installation and snapped off. I did think of returning it to Apacer since it has life time warranty; but Apacer has not been making DDR for quite some time. The pair runs at 2.5-3-3-7 despite 3-4-4-8 rating.
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