- Ground yourself before touching any internal part of the computer.
Sit still in a chair and touch a metal pipe or the center screw of an elec-
trical outlet to remove any charge you may have built up walking across
the room. - Install new memory modules or remove and reinstall problematic ones.
The modules are designed to fit in place in only the proper orientation,
and once connected are held in place by small clips. In Figure 6-4, I’m
preparing to lower a SODIMM into place as the second bank of memory. - Put the battery pack back in place and attach the AC cord.
When memories go bad .......................................................................
As I’ve already noted, memory modules don’t often fail all by themselves. That
doesn’t mean never, though. Your laptop can lose its memory a few ways.Figure 6-4:
Placing a
128MB
SODIMM
into the
available
slot on an
older laptop.
Chapter 6: Brain Matters: Memory, Microprocessors, and BIOS 95