Check that you have the right RAM
It seems obvious, but the first thing to do is to make sure you install the right kind of RAM on your PC. Modules can be DIMM if they are desktop or SO-DIMM when they are portable, and size differences are obvious. But among the DDR modules the DDR, DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4, although of the same length, have physical variations that you can see at first sight where the "notch" is located in the connector. In DDR4 above, the connection point is slightly curved.
Look at the type of anchor on your board
The next step you must do is look anchor type of RAM base of your board. You can find two types: with "active" anchor and "anchor" with "In the following picture, on the left are assets and on the right are debt. There are motherboards on which both sides work, but there are many that, like in the picture, have shapes on each side.
The difference between the two is that in the active anchors there is a moving part that will be the one that communicates the module to the socket, while for the inputs there is nothing. Before installing RAM, make sure the active anchors are open. To do this, we simply release the anchor and we will unlock.
How to install RAM modules on your PC
Once the proper checks are done, we'll see how to insert RAM into the motherboard. A good way is to align the RAM module with the socket and mount it, so that The module "notch" is the same as that socket, first on one side and then on the other, then pressing down until it sounds a little "clicks", which means that the active anchors have closed above the memory module and are holding it. These anchors shut down on their own, and if they didn't when you put RAM in it, we didn't fix it.
In the case where the motherboard is the one with the active and passive anchor, RAM should be installed first with a part of a self-propelled anchor, so that when an item is pressed, the memory module is configured. If the motherboard is one with two active anchors, we can mount the module directly perpendicular; First we put it on the socket and press both sides at the same time, so that the two anchors are close.
How to remove RAM modules from motherboard
If you have already installed RAM in the system and what you want to do is uninstall it to replace it, the back-up process is quite simple. As we have seen before, all the bases have at least one active anchor with one module, and the only thing that has to be done is to remove the memory module to push the anchor down and out, which will free up the memory module.
If you have an anchor running on both sides, then you should probably do it, and you have to be careful because, sometimes, RAM "jumps" when you open the anchor, so it's best to hold the RAM with one hand and remove the anchor with the other. active anchors, you have to drag RAM to remove it.
Correct As you have seen, it is very easy to install and uninstall RAM on a PC, but you should have some forethought if you haven't already done so to not break anything in the process.
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