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Planning the soldering

A project log for Macbook Pro RAM upgrade

Soldering in 16GB of RAM. Easy or buy a new Mac after the attempt? ;)

sebastiusSebastius 03/08/2019 at 21:080 Comments

Besides soldering the RAM itself is that a few config lines need to change (based on the schematic and my RAM, both Hynix brand 1866mhz):

RAMCFG0 H -> L

RAMCFG1 L -> H

That means the following resistors need to change

R1611 moves to R1635 (100k)

R2052 moves to R2053 (10k) 

The components can be located using the .BRD file and the utility Openboardview.org 

moves to 

And then

moves to

So this issue is mainly finding the right resistors and pads. 

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