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watching youtube tutorials and they say that the ram (ddr4) should click into place. well it is not clicking into place, i have the notch lined up and i keep trying to click the notch into place but i do not want to break the board (msi x99a sli+)

am i doing something wrong? .-.

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refer to motherboard manual

MSI has great videos on youtube that show how to do it, those videos are linked in your manual.

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Just now, KabuTheFox said:

watching youtube tutorials and they say that the ram (ddr4) should click into place. well it is not clicking into place, i have the notch lined up and i keep trying to click the notch into place but i do not want to break the board (msi x99a sli+)

am i doing something wrong? .-.

if your scared of breaking anything. put your finger behind the mobo to support it and use more force. its normal with new motherboards that you need a little more force than normal

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