Missing pins in DIMM socket!

[robinson868]

Hello people of anandtech,I had a problem (neglect) trying to place a DIMM SDRAM memory of 168 pins. Apparently he made a short circuit and burn both memory and the socket. I researched and the burned (lost) pins in the socket are exactly the 165 (SA0) and 166 (SA1), the Serial address 1 and Serial address 2. I wonder if these pins influence the workings of memory as i seen cases where there are two or three missing pins and also the memory work, because there is supposedly pins that are not needed or are duplicates that can fulfill the function of the missing pins. Any help? Any hope? Sorry for bad english!

In the links, there is a memory as I have and the diagram that i saw:

Memory:
http://www.oempcworld.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/168dimm.jpg

Diagram:
http://pinouts.ru/Memory/DimmSdram168Unbuf_pinout.shtml

 

[Burpo]

Put memory in it and find out..

 

[CoPhotoGuy]

Uhhh...you burned crap in the socket - I wouldn't put anything in there anymore and would replace the board.

 

[MongGrel]

Put memory in it and find out..

Then pray to the RAM gods.

GL, I'd say the board is toast.

 

[mfenn]

Those pins are for addressing the SPD (serial presence detect) chip that's on the DIMM. They aren't technically required during normal operation, but are used by the BIOS to read configuration information from the DIMM. It's unlikely that a normal PC BIOS would recognize DIMMs which do not have working SPD.

 

[sm625]

Are all sockets damaged? If you have one undamaged socket and one undamaged DIMM, you could try just using that socket and leaving the other(s) empty.