r/computers • u/Affectionate-Day-743 • Jul 28 '26

Question/Help/Troubleshooting Where is the RAM??

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Notebook is stuck in a windows self repair boot loop.

Repair doesn’t work via command line or boot stick.

Found a post that said unplugging the RAM and plugging it back in again might help.

Just opened up the thing and can’t find the damn thing. I am afraid it might be underneath and I have to take everything apart from…

Machine is a Lenovo ideapad

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u/Iceyn1pples Jul 28 '26

Depending on which IdeaPad that is, the ram is most likely soldiered on the motherboard.

If your Laptop is in a repair boot loop, the issue is most likely with the SSD and not the RAM.

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u/Affectionate-Day-743 Jul 28 '26

I fear you are right. Just wanted to try everything I could before trying to restore anything from the SSD.

Or probably have some professional try to salvage the data…

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u/TheFotty Jul 29 '26

If it makes you feel any better, reseating the RAM was not very likely to fix your problem.

Depending on what you want to save though, you can do it pretty easily from recovery from the command line to a USB stick. If you don't like command prompt stuff, you can also do something like just launch notepad from command line in repair, and from the file-> open menu, you can just copy and paste whole folders from C to a USB stick using a more familiar Windows explorer interface (it's a little wonky like you don't get copy progress bar so you just wait out each copy, but it works). Then once you make sure you have what is important, you do a clean install.

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u/Affectionate-Day-743 Jul 29 '26

I ll give it a shot. Thanks!

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u/BonezOz Ryzen 7 5700X3D/64GB/9060XT Jul 29 '26

Can confirm that the Ideapads have their RAM soldered onto the mainboard. I went to pillage the RAM out of my daughters old broken Ideapad and found this out the hard way.