new motherboard problem

[dartblazer]

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I just received a biostar m6vlq that i bought from newegg.com. I installed it inside a case, inserted my celeron 466MHZ, attached a heatsink installed a stick of pc100 322 64MB ram, plugged in the power to the motherboard, and plugged in my monitor and keyboard.
I tried to boot it, the fans inside the case spun and the case lights turned on, but there was no beep, and the monitor didnt turn on. Usually this seems like its a memory problem, so i tried another stick of pc100 322 64MB ram, and i had the same results. I then tried a stick of 32MB pc66 ram and again same results. I've tried different slots, resetting the cmos jumper, even trying a different celeron 466MHz processor, but no change. The only other thing i could think that would be a problem is i dont have my heatsink's fan plugged into the motherboard header, it uses a regular 4 pin molex. Before i go splicing wires to make my fan plug into the header, are there any other solutions that i'm not thinking of/is there anything special about this motherboard?
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[Lord Evermore]

You don't have a fan anywhere in your house with a 3pin connector that could be connected to the CPU fan header, just to verify that's not the issue? (I doubt it is, I don't think such an old board would have required detecting a fan; newer boards especially for Athlons do that because it's almost immediate failure if there isn't one.)

You might try actually pulling the battery out of the board for a good 10 minutes, as an alternative to just resetting the CMOS jumper. If it was a memory issue, I'd more expect there to be beeps indicating so.

Hmmm...I just downloaded the manual and it indicates that the board supports FC-PGA and FC-PGA2 processors. However I haven't dealt with Intel-processor boards enough to have kept up with processor support lines. I assume your Celeron466 is a PPGA processor. Is it possible that it won't work with the PPGA line?