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MISSING RAM SLOT?

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First - it'd be great if you didn't follow Linus' clickbait title policy :)

 

Yep, it definitely looks like you've only got one. Maybe the manufacturer made a chip that supports 2 sticks, but for your model they only actually stuck one slot onto the motherboard.

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Hello Good day! Please help me I am just a newbie. My task manager says My laptop have a RAM slot #2 and CPU Z also says I have. But when I opened My laptop and checked my motherboard for for the RAM slot it has only 1 ram of course, and i removed it. After i remove the RAM I didn't see any other RAM slot to put my other RAM stick. I don't understand why my task manager and CPU Z says that the laptop has 2 slots of ram but it only has 1. Feel free to check the pictures. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Thank you!

 

Note: When i took a photo of my RAM slot i already remove the 4 GB stick.

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What laptop?

 

Often ram is soldered on the board and thats one of the slots.

 

Often also the bios is wrong as those programs are reading from the smbios and the cpu is supporting 2 dimms, it just only has a slot for one dimm.

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First - it'd be great if you didn't follow Linus' clickbait title policy :)

 

Yep, it definitely looks like you've only got one. Maybe the manufacturer made a chip that supports 2 sticks, but for your model they only actually stuck one slot onto the motherboard.

Want to know which mobo to get?

Spoiler

Choose whatever you need. Any more, you're wasting your money. Any less, and you don't get the features you need.

 

Only you know what you need to do with your computer, so nobody's really qualified to answer this question except for you.

 

chEcK iNsidE sPoilEr fOr a tREat!

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14 hours ago, bob51zhang said:

First - it'd be great if you didn't follow Linus' clickbait title policy :)

 

Yep, it definitely looks like you've only got one. Maybe the manufacturer made a chip that supports 2 sticks, but for your model they only actually stuck one slot onto the motherboard.

What click bait policy? I'm sorry i don't want to click bait i just put "Missing RAM slot" In the title because i don't know if i have 2 or only 1 RAM slot thats why I'm asking. But now it seems I've got my answer thanks for your replies! :)

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1 minute ago, Vince Josef said:

What click bait policy? I'm sorry i don't want to click bait i just put "Missing RAM slot" In the title because i don't know if i have 2 or only 1 RAM slot thats why I'm asking. But now it seems I've got my answer thanks for your replies! :)

wait, but you never answered

 

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Often ram is soldered on the board

when you opened you laptop to take pics, did you take out a ram module?

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14 hours ago, Rallenhayestime said:

wait, but you never answered

 

when you opened you laptop to take pics, did you take out a ram module?

Yes i already take the RAM module when i took the photos.

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Just now, Vince Josef said:

Yes i already take the RAM module when i took the photos.

Okay, thanks for clearing that up.

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7 minutes ago, Rallenhayestime said:

when you opened you laptop to take pics, did you take out a ram module?

Often one dimm is soldered and one is in a dimm slot. Does it boot with no dimms? did you check on the otherside of the board?

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Often one dimm is soldered and one is in a dimm slot. Does it boot with no dimms? did you check on the otherside of the board?

Why'd you quote me?

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14 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Often one dimm is soldered and one is in a dimm slot. Does it boot with no dimms? did you check on the otherside of the board?

I didn't check on the other side of the board, I haven't tried booting up the machine without DIMMS.  

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Either the other slot is on the back side of the board, or the laptop has a bunch of memory soldered directly to the board and only one slot is physically present.

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16 minutes ago, Vince Josef said:

I didn't check on the other side of the board, I haven't tried booting up the machine without DIMMS.  

could you tell us what laptop you have?

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14 hours ago, Rallenhayestime said:

could you tell us what laptop you have?

I have ACER ASPIRE ONE Z1402 with Core i3 5005U

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55 minutes ago, Vince Josef said:

What click bait policy?

MISSING RAM SLOT?

 

Don't want to sound too annoyed or something, but the all caps combined with the question mark kinda did it for me.

Want to know which mobo to get?

Spoiler

Choose whatever you need. Any more, you're wasting your money. Any less, and you don't get the features you need.

 

Only you know what you need to do with your computer, so nobody's really qualified to answer this question except for you.

 

chEcK iNsidE sPoilEr fOr a tREat!

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14 hours ago, mariushm said:

Either the other slot is on the back side of the board, or the laptop has a bunch of memory soldered directly to the board and only one slot is physically present.

But if it has memory soldered directly to the board then why my ram is only 4GB? The stick i use is 4GB if i remov

 

14 hours ago, bob51zhang said:

MISSING RAM SLOT?

 

Don't want to sound too annoyed or something, but the all caps combined with the question mark kinda did it for me.

Oh i didn't know, I'm sorry about that.

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20 minutes ago, Vince Josef said:

But if it has memory soldered directly to the board then why my ram is only 4GB? The stick i use is 4GB if i remov

 

Oh i didn't know, I'm sorry about that.

Some laptops have soldered ram, but yours does not.

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