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Bought a broken laptop, and fixed it mostly by luck.
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Now you sell that stick of ram and make back the whole price of the laptop lul
Have you tried cleaning the ram socket with a soft brush and 99% alcohol? Then let try before resocketing for a while of course
Please test that stick before selling it to someone (or at least sell it cheap and say it's untested). It's much more likely the ram is bad than the slot.
I wouldn't sell it untested of course ( sell it as such would only attract buyers that would resell it as good).
I did test with an ok 8GB 2666 stick (the manual says the soldered is 3200 but runs at 2666 ?!), I might investigate further one day...