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Figure 4-34 CPU-Z showing RAM information

All new systems count on SPD to set the RAM timings properly for your

system when it boots. If you add a RAM stick with a bad SPD chip, you’ll

get a POST error message and the system will not boot. You can’t fix a

broken SPD chip; you just buy a new stick of RAM.

Installing SO-DIMMs in Laptops

It wasn’t that long ago that adding RAM to a laptop was either impossible or

required you to send the system back to the manufacturer. Long ago, laptop

makers used expensive, proprietary, custom-made RAM packages that were

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