Raspberry Pi locks down Pi 5 RAM upgrades in firmware
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What happened
Raspberry Pi added a feature in their firmware that restricts users from swapping RAM chips, sometimes even RAM chips of the same capacity from other Raspberry Pi boards. Apparently there were people buying cheap 1 or 2 gig Pi 5s, soldering in some cheap and sometimes unreliable 8 gig RAM chips, and selling them as new 8 gig Pi 5s. Now I totally understand where Raspberry Pi's coming from. They don't wanna support P…
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