long beep of death

[blakegocoogs]

I just got a barebones system from Mwave.com. It has an Abit NF8 w/ an A64 3000+ and 1 gig of "mwave" memory already installed in an Antec slk1650 case.

I just added my CD drive, a hard drive and video card but all I get when I boot up is one long beep every 5 seconds. The LEDs on the keyboard light up but I get nothing on the monitor. I have
1) replaced the RAM w/ RAM that works in another system.
2) replaced the video card w/ a videocard that works in another system.
3) cleared the bios.

All I get is the same long beep every 5 seconds...even when I tried booting w/ out any RAM at all.

The folks at Mwave seemed to have connected all of the case jumpers correctly but other than clearing the CMOS, I have done no actual work w/ motherboard conncections or jumper settings....outside of connecting my drives. I haven't been able to find much luck in the instruction manual. And mwave support and my thread on another website have yielded no response.

Any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance. I know you guys get this kind of stuff all the time. I just don't know where else to go.

-Blake

 

[montag451]

Take out EVERYTHING and disconnect ALL wires from mobo except:
cpu/fan
psu
case speaker


Now, trip the power switch headers with a screwdriver to switch on.
What happens now?

 

[blakegocoogs]

Just did it. Only the powersupply & speaker plugged into the the mobo. Turned it on w/ the screwdriver & no beep of death.

 

[montag451]

Do you mean there were no beeps at all?

If so, then add RAM now, and reboot.
Carry on adding one thing at a time till you get the long nasty beep.
Post back quickly as I gotta get some sleep

 

[blakegocoogs]

Thanks a lot for all your help. I got the beep when I added the CPU. I then took out the CPU and added just RAM w/ no beep. I guess this means a bad CPU or mobo. I don't know which is more likely. I'm gonna have to RMA w/ mwave anyway.

Thanks again. Do you have anymore insight?

Blake

 

[montag451]

You must have a working cpu in the machine, or it won't go through the bootstrap process.

Sorry - we haven't diagnosed the problem just yet.

Chances are it is the mobo or psu, but the only way to find out is to try your cpu in another mobo, and try a know working cpu in your mobo.
If you got the mobo and cpu from the same place, they will probably be ok with testing both, and replacing the broken piece