[RESOLVED] No boot, no POST

[cnglasgow]

A friend of mine brought over 2 formerly working computers he had attepted to swap parts on. One is a 486DX100, the other a P133 system. Because he managed to break the 72pin memory sockets on the 486 system, I'll call that a lost cause. But niether computer gets past a droning "beep beep beep beep beep...(forever beep)" and there is no video out. The video cards work, and I have tried to boot up with just a video card (no memory, FDD, HDD, etc.) and all I get is the beeps from hell. Anything else I can look at? I suspect a new mboard/cpu is needed. Thanks for any help.

[Eagle PC Diagnostech]

I would go with your suspictions.
Had the same thing happen recently, with this irritating non-stop beeping at startup, and it turned out to be both, motherboard and CPU

[format c:]

How abotu some memroy on the bord and then remove all the adapter cards from their slots except the video card and try to reboot if it boots up then shut it down and reinstall one card at a time until the problem reappears , the last card you install when the problem reappears is the culprit I have seen sound cards hang up systems and video cards added to systems cause conflicts even though the onboard video is supposed to turn it self off . Look for a disable jumper if the system has the video on the motherboard and there is a vieo card upgrade in place
I hope one of those systems boots up for ya