installing more memory

bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote: Some years ago a friend turned up asking for help. He'd purchased a motherboard that needed 168-pin SDRAM (that's two little slots in the stick and two corresponding ridges in the connector to give you a hint). He' also purchased two sticks of 184-pin DDR. "I've managed to fit one but it doesn't work". FWIW the memory had survived, the socket had come off slightly worse. With the amount of force he'd used, he'd managed to not only to damage the ridges in the connector but also remove at least one half of one of the gold contacts. But other than that I've found DIMM sockets to be very reliable. I have one motherboard that I've used to test SDRAM before selling it on, and despite having had a large number of insertions and removals (all in the same socket too ...) it's still going strong. Antonio