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Installing random-access memory (RAM)

Installing random-access memory (RAM)

From the course: IT Hardware Essentials: Desktop Support and Troubleshooting by Pearson

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Installing random-access memory (RAM)

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All right, so now in this lesson, here's what we got going on. We have gotten the motherboard out. We've talked about that. We're now going to cover how to install this memory. Now based on looking at this, you can see that you have a tab here and you have a tab here. easier to see with the motherboard not in the chassis itself. So what we'll do, as you can see, let me put this down here, this little tab, we're going to pull it out like this. And you see it starts lifting that memory chip up. There's another one here. See if I can make that a little bit clearer for us. There we go. See this little thing here? We're going to pull it back. Whoa, memory shot right out of there. And that's the thing, when you grab it, you don't want to touch those pins and you don't want to touch the chips so much. But as I tip this down, you can see how this slot on this side is longer than this little slot here, evident by the way that this chip sits. This chip has to sit in this particular fashion. So…

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