Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:4674 comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:346 comp.sys.mac.hardware:7985 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:5719 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!jarthur!usc!apple!agate!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!elaine20.stanford.edu!alee From: alee@elaine20.stanford.edu (Andrew Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Broken SIMM sockets Summary: Plastic tabs on SIMM sockets have broken Keywords: SIMM sockets plastic tabs broken Message-ID: Date: 21 Jan 91 23:39:31 GMT Sender: news@portia.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 28 I'm posting this to a number of groups I don't normally read, because this question isn't really computer-specific. If you post a reply, please either mail me a copy, or cross-post it to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. I have a clone 386 25 MHz motherboard with cache, and on two of the eight SIMM sockets (both in the first bank of four), one of the plastic tabs at the ends which hold the SIMMs in place have broken off. They will no longer hold my 1Mx9 SIMMs properly, although they are able to hold the 256Kx9 SIMMs that I took out a year ago, and which I had to put back in. Unfortunately, this limits me to 2M of RAM. (The 1Mx9 and 256Kx9 SIMMs seem to be barely different sizes, but I'd need a micrometer to check.) I'd like some suggestions for an inexpensive solution to this. I've heard that there are piggyback sockets that you can clip on to the original sockets, and which you plug your SIMMs into. Everybody I've talked to thinks they exist, but don't know where to get them. So, do are they available, and if so, where, and for how much? Also, if they're too high, I might have a problem fitting them in, because at one end of the sockets, there's virtually no clearance above the SIMMs. Are these devices designed with this sort of problem in mind? Failing this, I guess I could have the broken sockets removed, and new ones soldered in. Where could I have this done (in the Stanford and Palo Alto area) inexpensively, and how much would it be? I'd like to minimize the possibility of heat damage to the motherboard. Andrew Lee alee@portia.stanford.edu