Quote Originally Posted by irv6744
i am leaning towards a defective mb. i can see the hp blue intro screen but keyboard doesn't work. takes about a second and i hear fast beeps, too fast to count, and then another second later it goes to a steady tone. it does not shut down nor do i think it is trying to boot. anyone run into that before. i never have.
if someone used an asus file to flash the bios, would i still get the hp into screen.

i have not tried it with two fans. i have another used hp board and when i got the fan error message, i was able to plug the cpu fan into the other fan power connector and all was well. i did not try that on this board yet. is it possible to get the tone and lockup if the case fan connector is not being used

The answer for the last question is - "No"...

What kind of beeps do you have? Does it sound like a key on keyboard is stuck? or something else like memory error beeps?

Did you try any PCI videocard instead of on-board? Defective videocard can cause all sort of troubles... Besides, you have now only on-board video, which takes it's memory for the main memory... So, if something is wrong with memory stick, it can cause problems... What memory type/manufacturer did you try, by the way? - do not trust noname memory!