"You don't need a screwdriver to exchange the RAM in your computer, but you probably need a flashlight to see what you're doing."

Well some PCs did use the Dual In Line package for RAM and one way of removing these chips is to carefully work bit at a time each end with a small plain screwdriver but you would have to be looking at something very ancient to encounter that. It's far more likely that if you did find this type of chip on your motherboard that you are not looking at RAM.

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