Excuse me, but a few months ago, i turned on my computer to smell a burning smell. Once i investigated further, I found that the RAM stick was burnt and the RAM slot is a bit black around that area. When I tried a different RAM stick in a different spot, it was fine for one power up, but every other time, it gives me a beep message. The beep message seems to be consecutive beep for a few seconds, that keeps going on like that. The motherboard is an EliteGroup KV2 Lite motherboard. Thanks for any help or advise anyone can offer, if there is not enough clarity in the question, please tell me. Thanks

The Beep is most likely a RAM error.

Are there four slots? Did you try all four? At the risk of your RAM stick.

If all four fail with a known good stick then there is probably not much to do but go motherboard shopping.

If you have a known good stick (and don't mind risking it) I'd try each slot ensuring between tries that the stick remains good in another computer.

If it needs that first slot you could try cleaning the slot with alcohol. Perhaps a knife blade wrapped with a bit of lintless material wet with a bit of alcohol.

any suggestion on a lintless material? what would i achieve in using a knife blade and alcohol? thanks

If there is any carbon residue inside the slot.

Any instrument that wrapped with a good stiff paper towel will fit into the slot.

Even a good stiff paper towel folded such that it will stay intact after a dip in alcohol.

The idea is just get any residue of the burn out of the slot.

Also look at the board around it and see if there is any noticeable damage.

i don't see any noticeable damage to the board itself.

then again, where the burn mark was, there is a bit of a whole burnt into the ram holder to the right side, i wonder, would this really effect DIMM RAM?

Anything burring on a detailed circuit board like that could affect who knows what.

Also you need to wonder why it burned in the first place.

If trying all the slots with good RAM produces no results I doubt there is anything to do.

Again trying good RAM in all the slots risks that RAM as well.

If you have four slots and the first one is the burnt one try the one next to it or else the last one.

Outside of cleaning and trying I don't know what else to try short of shopping.

ok, thank you for your time.

No problem.

Let us know if we can help further.

yeah, so the location of a ram stick will not affect the functionability of the ram?