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From: carl@doctor.Tymnet.COM (Carl Baltrunas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Broken SIMM socket
Message-ID: <1268@doctor.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 90 01:40:44 GMT
References: <158@bach.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: carl@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Carl Baltrunas)
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In article <158@bach.stanford.edu> meldal@bach.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal) writes:
>
>A friend of mine has gotten himself into such an embarassing fix, he
>wants me to post this query (remaining anonymous himself):
>
>The scenario:
>He installed SIMMs into his MacIIcx. For good reasons, he then wanted to
>remove them again. In doing so, he broke one of the retaining clips on
>one of the SIMM sockets, with the result that attempts at installing
>SIMMs in that socket again are unsuccessful - the SIMM will not click
>in place.
>
One way (without having someone replace the clip, it must be possible to
do without a full logic board swap, but I wouldn't want my apple dealer
to do it...) is the extend the usefulness of the next prior SIMMs clip.

<<<<< direction SIMM wants to go to be released from the socket <<<<<

(good)     (good)     (good)    (broken)
  ::         ::         ::         ::
  ::         ::         ::+-------+::
  ::         ::         ::I       I::      Note: the etender (focus on the
  ::         ::         ::I       I::            area between the 4 +'s) is
  ::         ::         ::I       I::            a block of wood that passes
  ::         ::         ::+-------+::            the support from one of the
  ::         ::         ::         ::            good SIMM modules to the
  ::         ::         ::         ::            broken one.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::   I know, it happened to me! :-(
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Be careful that you don't break another clip in the process, but be sure
to keep the spacing and support on the SIMM accurate, else you'll have
intermittant memory problems caused by an ill-fitting SIMM in it's socket.

-Carl
(Gee was I embarassed when this happened to me! (red-faced smiley :-)
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