Neo2, ram "thingie" broken, should I be worried?

Well, I dont know know the word for those things that keep the ram in place, the two white "thingies" which you have to press/push to put the ramblock in place. One of them broke in my neo2 while I was taking one of the blocks out. There is still one left on the right side, I tried with the only one left and it looks like the block isnt going anywhere .. has this happened to anyone? I am a bit worried that my ram all of a sudden pop out in the middle of it all. It seems pretty much like its in place and not moving, but I am not at all confortable about it.

Yeah - think the thingiesa may be called retaining clips!
Anyway, not on my neo, but on my old ASUS board I have done this also - although in my case it was on an unused slot that was just too close to my AGP and I was pressing that HARD like you have to and the heatsink I had put onto the AGP card fouled on the white clip and snapped it off.
IMHO this should ONLY matter if you were shipping the PC, and you could still handle it easily enough by removing the RAM stick to ship.... Alternatively I betcha you could easily rig up another way to ensure it is held in place - thinking of adhesive pads or somesuch - anyway, I should not feel bad or worry....

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