All RAM should have a serial number and a manufacturing date, and can be accessed with a program like CPU-z. (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) So they should be able to track them down some way or another.
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Those chips should be marked and tracing them should not proved to be too difficult.
All RAM should have a serial number and a manufacturing date, and can be accessed with a program like CPU-z. (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) So they should be able to track them down some way or another.