Can a RAM slot be repaired?

[Juviegar]

I have a MSI H81I motherboard that appeared to have one slot of RAM broken.
I have tried 3 different RAMs and all worked in the slot that's closest to the CPU, but once I populate both slots, or just the second slot, it won't boot.
My question is, can I send it to MSI to have it fixed? Or can it be fixed at all?

[porina]

It is likely un-economic to get it repaired.

 

Is there any obvious damage to the slot, the mobo, and also check the CPU socket for bent pins. 

[Juviegar]

Just now, porina said:

It is likely un-economic to get it repaired.

 

Is there any obvious damage to the slot, the mobo, and also check the CPU socket for bent pins. 

All the CPU pins are fine. The slot appears to be okay visually, no burns or dirt or smudge.

It's booting fine if I just use 1 slot, but using both or just the second makes the system not booting.

[SquintyG33Rs]

it is technically possible to repair some forms of damage to the slots  but it's not something you'd be able to do on your own and it's more expensive than buying a new board so yeah

 

[Juviegar]

5 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

it is technically possible to repair some forms of damage to the slots  but it's not something you'd be able to do on your own and it's more expensive than buying a new board so yeah

 

Yeah that's what I feared, more expensive to repair than buy another. How much do you think it'd take to repair?

[SquintyG33Rs]

3 minutes ago, Juviegar said:

Yeah that's what I feared, more expensive to repair than buy another. How much do you think it'd take to repair?

i don't work in that kind of field but it's going to be over 100$ because the soldering for it is hard and it's not sure where the damage is. either socket or slot side, replacement parts aren't something they'd keep in stock, it's not an iphone so they'd have to go find that too

 

keep in mind it might be your CPU that has an issue with detecting one of the channels (though unlikely)

[Juviegar]

1 minute ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

i don't work in that kind of field but it's going to be over 100$ because the soldering for it is hard and it's not sure where the damage is. either socket or slot side, replacement parts aren't something they'd keep in stock, it's not an iphone so they'd have to go find that too

 

keep in mind it might be your CPU that has an issue with detecting one of the channels (though unlikely)

Hmm I guess that means I'm stuck with 8GB RAM. Thanks for the info.