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Crucial ram, and Abit KT7A-Raid.

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I ordered 2 sticks of PC133 256MB CAS2 from crucial.com, but they won't work in my system. I have another cheap stick of Generic ram that works just fine.

When it boots, with the crucial ram in, there is single tone repetitive beep. Just one, but it repeats itself every 3 or 4 seconds.


Help is appreciated.

System specs:
1.4 T-bird
Abit KT7A-RAID
Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1
ATI RADEON 64M VIVO
Linksys NIC
Win2k Pro
 
Test the Crucial sticks one at a time to find out if only one stick is bad. If both won't work at one at a time then assume both are bad. Or they could be of the wrong spec. This has happened to me when I ordered PC133 and when I tried it on it will not work. I looked on the markngs and found out they were PC100! So I tried to run the system at 100Mhz FSB and blam! They work! But I have to return them for PC133 which is what I paid for to start with.
 
I have tested them one at a time, and neither one of them worked. I'll check the markings when I get home from work.

Thanks 🙂
 
Can't add anything to Jiggz' reply. He hit it on the head. I doubt that Crucial would make a mistake, but hey, there are actually REAL humans filling those orders! FYI, I have a 256mb PC133 stick on my KT7R and it runs dandy. Good luck.
 
I checked the sticker on the RAM. It says it's PC133.


Here are the chip markings


0130 1-1
MT 48LC16M8A2
TG -7E E

?:frown:
 
I had a similiar problem with my KT7-Raid and a stick of Crucial 256mb PC133 (same as yours). Got it to work by not using the middle DIMM slot.
 
I have the Abit KT7A-RAID and all my memory is Crucial (2-128mb and 1-256mb total=512mb, all CAS2). Not a single problem. I can move the memory around every DIMM slot and it still runs the same. Maybe they gave you the wrong memory, the memory is defective, the memory wasn't seated right, etc.. Most likely its either defective or the wrong type.
 
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