PM8M-V Dead after adding Ram

I posted with a bad bios flash and with your help got it running again. Well I decided to add another gig of ram . I powered it down remover power cord
added the ram turned back on and it is dead again. I get nothing can not get to bios. I took the ram I added out and its still dead. Could a bad stick
make another one bad also? Below is the info from the bios post.
I was doing the live update and it locked up at 88% and now I have nothing. I have read about flashing with a bootable floppy and flash program but can not get the bios file that is why I am replying on this post. I have the PM8M-V with P4 3.0ghz , 1 gig Kingston KVR400 pc3200 , Logisys PS480D PS , The front of the board reads ,
PM8M-VH MS-7104 VER:3.0 the sticker on the back is PM8M-V S/N:601-7104-030K0705007659. And yes I am a moron for doing that because before that the board has been flawless.
The 2nd stick of ram I added is the same as what I had in, 1 gig Kingston KVR400 pc3200 , the bios is now w7104vms.510 , before I added the ram it
was running great had no problems at all. I did clear the cmos to see if that would get it going again but nothing Thank you , David

Can you try to clear CMOS?
Make sure that your GPU is seated properly into the slot.

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Message was edited by: kaziekama

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