Dead RAM Slot?

[noahvt]

Hi!

 

Yesterday I sort of raged at my old laptop (the one I use for gaming) by hitting the keyboard and the entire screen glitched out and it also looks like that when you take out the ram on a running pc (I've done that on old broken laptops).

 

I rebooted the laptop by holding the power button and it refused to turn on, I immediately tore it apart and reseated the RAM. It still wouldn't turn on. I checked both RAM slots and it seems like the laptop refuses to post when there is RAM in slot 1... (slot 2 still works fine and both sticks work in slot 2).

 

I tore it apart completely and there is no apparent physical damage (it is al very well shielded on the bottom side of the board under the ram slots) and nothing seemed to be missing.

 

Did I manage to kill one of the CPU's memory channels? Because it will only post if there is nothing inserted into slot 1.

[ImNotThere]

pc parts can die randomly, its strange

yeah thats a dead ram slot to me!

[Gumi Rokkaku]

Yeah seems like you killed it.

[Unimportant]

1 hour ago, noahvt said:

Hi!

 

Yesterday I sort of raged at my old laptop (the one I use for gaming) by hitting the keyboard and the entire screen glitched out and it also looks like that when you take out the ram on a running pc (I've done that on old broken laptops).

 

I rebooted the laptop by holding the power button and it refused to turn on, I immediately tore it apart and reseated the RAM. It still wouldn't turn on. I checked both RAM slots and it seems like the laptop refuses to post when there is RAM in slot 1... (slot 2 still works fine and both sticks work in slot 2).

 

I tore it apart completely and there is no apparent physical damage (it is al very well shielded on the bottom side of the board under the ram slots) and nothing seemed to be missing.

 

Did I manage to kill one of the CPU's memory channels? Because it will only post if there is nothing inserted into slot 1.

Define "hitting" ? Did you mash it hard enough to flex the entire laptop body? It's a multi-layer PCB so flexing it too hard could break a trace on the inner layers, which would be totally invisible to the naked eye.