so i was removing memory from my mobo (3am in the morning, was having insomnia)
when i forgot to unplug the power cord from the pc and the red light was on (5v standby?)
and when i power it on i got the long 4sec beep , silence, repeat....(thought i smell some
burning smell too)
so thinking it's either dead memory or cpu, took them out to test on different
pc.....satisfied they're functional, i order the nf7-s2 again 2 weeks later after much
thought and hook it up last nite to get the same goddam noise!!!!.....
and to compound my idiocy, i wrongly deduced it was the pny 6800gt being dead
.....defeated, i went to other computer to look for rma info when i came upon the
pdf manual....open it, scroll real fast and chance upon the diagram where it instruct
to plug molex into vid card for additional power...
lo and behold nothing is broken!
just a case of senior moment/ mr magoo syndrome
now i have an extra mobo.....gonna see how well it oc a xp1600 tbred w/ 2x512mb
pc2700 and 1x256mb pc3200