How to upgrade soldered ram

[dmkelley6812]

Hey all,

I'm not a computer whiz by any means... Just been following the tutorials on this site. I finally have Mountain Lion up and running on my Lenovo thinkpad twist with about 90% of the features working.

I have an i7 3517u 1.9GHz processor and 8GB ram. The ram is soldered. I'm wondering if it would be possible to desolder the ram and install a larger ram. I don't know if the computer will automatically be able to recognize the larger ram or not.

Is this possible? Or is it possible to find a replacement mobo that doesn't have the ram soldered on?

Hopefully I don't pain you with stupid questions. Just hoping to get the most out of my hack. Thanks!

PS: I did post the same topic in mountain lion support, but realized it probably doesn't fit in that forum.

 

[ed-min]

In short:

No, it's not possible.

 

[ApplePi]

Unless you have many many years of BGA soldering it is a very difficult task and in many cases there are not compatible replacements for your ram modules.