Ram Error

[kazbear]

My mobo is an Elite Group K7VTA3 Rev 2.0 I just upgraded from an AMD Duron to an AMD Athlon XP 2000.

I changed the jumper to 133. I changed BIOS settings for RAM to 133.

I have 3 128 meg ram sticks.

When I first booted up, everything seemed fine (That was easy!). But after looking around I noticed Windows was only reporting 256 Megs ram.

So I reseated the ram sticks, and messed around with some of the BIOS ram settings (I tried all kinds of combinations). Most of the time, after rebooting (Nothing but Monitor Keyboard and Mouse) I would get the long beeps.

I have determined that if there is a ram stick (Does not matter which one) in the slot closest to the CPU, I will get the error.

What do you think?

[meese]

Looks like a defective RAM slot.

[Peter M]

Or you selected timings manually that won't do for 133 MHz bus. Step back to defaults, run memtest86 from www.memtest86.com