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Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips

258 points · 211 comments · edandersen

Aurornis · 1789997234 · focus · HN ↗
There were sellers buying the smallest RAM units, changing the RAM chips, and then reselling them as the higher RAM SKUs. The sellers who do this don’t always care to use good RAM chips and may even use QA reject parts. When the unit doesn’t work correctly, the anger and RMA requests are directed back at the Raspberry Pi foundation.
1. renonce · 1790014574 · focus · HN ↗
  Just make the RAM mismatch a warning that voids warranty rather than a hard error. This is no excuse for forcing hardware pairing
  1. gosub100 · 1790078322 · focus · HN ↗
    That won't stop scammers from reselling modified boards.
    ryukoposting · 1790086894 · focus · HN ↗
    But it will make triage for both the user and RPi Foundation trivial, which is the actual problem they're trying to solve here.
    ...unless the goal really is locking boards to stock memory configurations.

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