Kt3 ultra + ram recognition

i have a kt3 ultra with an athlon xp 1700+ and windows XP. i am having trouble installing a new 256 stick of ram. i already have one stick of 256 on the board. when i boot the 'puter it doesn't recognize the second(new) stick. i tested the stick seperately, they both work alone. any suggestions?

Hello Deucecoop,
What is the brand of the chips of your sticks?
For sure you have an incompatibility between your 2 brands. Using known brands like Infineon, or Apacer with known chips like Nanya or Samsung create less problems.
You can check also the tips at this link:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/service/forum/index.php?threadid=1131&boardid=13&styleid=1
ralcan

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I have just gotten the Kt3-Ultra and have
when first turning it on, been greeted with a 3 beep from the speaker.
The D-Bracket LED's show that the error is a "Onbord memory module may be damaged or not installed correctly"
The system then hangs.
What does this mean?
Is the RAM stuffed (DDR-PC2700)
or is it the MOBO.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!! X(

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Originally posted by Cmdr_K00n
I have just gotten the Kt3-Ultra and have
when first turning it on, been greeted with a 3 beep from the speaker.
The D-Bracket LED's show that the error is a "Onbord memory module may be damaged or not installed correctly"
The system then hangs.
What does this mean?
Is the RAM stuffed (DDR-PC2700)
or is it the MOBO.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!! X(
I have the same problem, w/ same MOBO. I have found that if I disconnect the power cord or turn off power strip after turning off computer, the problem is gone temporarily. It comes back again when I turn off the computer again. Could there be a BIOS problem, or possibly something to do with the MOBO not resetting correctly?? Please help!!!

What RAM works with KT3 Ultra (Orig) ????

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SORRY BIGDADDY. Come to find out a new board
did not fix the prob I am having probs with the OS. Not
only that but several other programs don't work
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even install right. I figured NEW CPU...but as you can
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Main Memory
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The PC is only 2 months old and I have only experienced stop errors in the last 2 weeks or so and usually are at random - and occur more often when copying files - or putting load on the PC.. any ideas why the RAM is only now causing errors and what the problem is?
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OK I found a few minidumps in the event log
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Hi, I'm using Kt3 Ultra 2-C motherboard and pc2700 ram added on it. I think to add pc 3200 ram. Can I use side by side both ram. Thanks.

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Ram Problem With KT3 Ultra

Hi Guys,
I have posted on here before.
I have a kt3 ultra mobo.
The problem i have is when playing games the system locks up and i have to hard restart.
I have followed advice from this board the the faq ant mobo bios set up which sadly has not solved the problem.
Very strange but in the pc i have two x 256 meg ddr ram.
If i take either stick out the pc plays games perfectly. This is frustrating as both sticks work fine on their own but not together.
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Sometimes it happens that sticks just won't work together....
You might want to swap one of the sticks with a friend to see if the problem is gone...

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Hope someone can help.
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I battled this problem for weeks. I bought a new antec 550 watt PSU, corsair xms 3200 ram, and new antec tower case trying to find out if the problem was ram, power or heat. I should also note that turning on spread spectrum helped a little in stability. Setting it to .50% made it stable in windows and games, but the computer would not turn on if shutdown unless I cleared the cmos. No setting besides this had any effect on stability. Even conservative ram timings. I was about to buy an Asus a7n8x when I realized that I had once run my old cpu and ram at 166 fsb when I had the 5.6 bios a couple of months back. I did not keep it like that in fear of damaging the ram while overclocked.
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KT3 Ultra-ARU SB Live! problem when using onboard Promise MBFasttrak 1

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MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU
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nVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
ATi TVWonder
RTL8029 ethernet card
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Teac CD-E540 cd-rom
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KT3 Ultra ARU Lock up

My sig has everything I know about my computer.
I usually at 47 deg CPU and 42 System
the Hottest is 50 deg and 45 system and it did not
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Mainboard: MSI KT3 Ultra ARU
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
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Mouse: Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical
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Additional detail - I lost my original W2KPro CD, and my copy is not bootable... so I'm creating a 2GB DOS partition and booting with a Win98 boot disk to get to the CD and running WINNT from there.
I've gone through the posts on both the AMDMB and MSI forums and seen some insightful suggestions... but nothing that exactly duplicates by problems. Hopefully one of you bright bulbs will be able to light my way. :D
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0x0000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
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0x0000001E KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
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Back Rev'd the Bios to 5.4 but that didn't help. Back to the forums...
Bas - Thanks for reminding me of the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid). I had simplified the HW but was still altering the Bios settings to where I know they should be.
WELL - I HAVE SUCCESS !!
In further research, (being new to this - remember?) I also find threads saying that I'm supposed to clear the CMOS/NVRAM using a motherboard jumper before powering up the board for the first time and after changing processors. I don't know how accurate that is - maybe someone will be kind enough to elaborate.
I've asked Mr.Steveo in the AMDMB forums if he thinks this step needs to be included in his hardware installation guide. I followed it religiously in my install and it doesn't mention doing this.
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