I'm on about my fifth try with this box and it is frustrating me to no end.

I had problems when I tried to move a hard drive from one PC to another and that was answered. See the thread below this with my ID.

So now I'm trying to do what they suggested. I installed the motherboard, cards, hard drive, other hardware, turned the power on and before anything could happen, I got a beep, sustained for about two seconds. It kept beeping every three or four seconds until I turned the PC off. I carefully checked everything that was installed to make sure it was seated correctly. I removed one board at a time, one drive at a time, and turned the PC on in between. The beeping continued after each item was uninstalled. I even removed the memory chip. Still beeping.

Any speculation as to what could be wrong?

I'm about ready to break down and take the board to a local store for help. I don't want to but I'm running out of answers.

Thanks.

Can you identify the board & also the BIOS?

The motherboard is a Biostar "M7VIB", Phoenix bios. Numbers on the bios chip are D686 and a serial number.

The thing about all this is that I had this motherboard with this hard drive and these boards in the box, working, albeit with the error that I worked with you on, but there was no beeping until I was getting ready to do the repair. Then the darn thing starts beeping. The only thing I can think of, and this is pure speculation, is that I added a fan and heat sink to the motherboard to replace a fan that was inoperable. But I can't see how this could be a problem.

the phoenix bios has beep codes as seen here:

http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml

Do you have any LED indicators?

red light? green light? amber?

are you sure the processor is seated correctly?

did you mean you added a heat sink & fan to the processor?

No lights. It doesn't get far enough to give any sort of indication. It just starts beeping and continues until I physically turn off the power supply.

I looked at the bios beep codes. The power supply works. I removed the memory chip from the board and the beeping continues.

I added a heat sink over a chip that is fused onto the motherboard. I didn't touch the CPU or the fan that powers it. Maybe you can tell what the chip is underneath. Specs and a picture are at the following URL.

http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=m7vib


The fan that I replaced is clearly shown in the picture. I can't understand why installing a new fan would cause a problem unless I accidentally scraped something on the circuitry of the motherboard removed the old fan or installing the new one.

I'm ready to take it to a local shop to see what they think it is.

Let me know what you think. Thank you for your help.