Ram burned msi kt333 ultra

Hi all
I flashed my k7t266 MSI board with the wrong bios yesterday, so off course i had to get a new MSI board being the kt333 ultra. Today when playing CS the machine suddently switched itself off, not being able to reboot AT ALL. 3 long beeps occured. I found out that this was caused by fault i ram and i reinserted them which caused smoke to appear from the socket, upon trying one more time in another socket a spark appeared.
Could this be caused by me setting "optimal performance" in the bios with my 9 months old Kingston "2100 /266 mhz. ddr ram"? If that is the case do you think the whole board is broken or "just" my ram?.
...I suppose theres not any warranty covering this...
When i power on the board now (without any ram) i keep getting the 3 long beeps.
Thanks for any thoughts...
/Towli

It sounds awfully much like you tried inserting the ram with power applied. You have to rememeber that modern ATX PSUs still supply some power to the board when it is swithed off. It is always safer to unplug the PC before removing or inserting anything.

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