Beep Beep - This cannot be good

[RoamDog]

I am NOT an expert builder, but am not afraid to give stuff a try if I can find good directions.
Am building from scratch (so will eventually have to load an OS also--which may be a challenge as I am familiar with upgrading an OS but have never had any success loading from scratch). Specs are listed below.
Have all the hardware hooked up. But perhaps not hooked up correctly?
When I turn the system on, it immediately starts beeping. 2 short beeps over and over. After a few seconds there is a single slightly different beep (that sounds like the standard beep I get on my computer that is working) intermixed with the two beeps and the two beeps just keep going. The BIOS startup message is displayed and the memory starts to count. The two beeps never go away? Since I do not have an OS loaded yet, I cannot do anything except go into the BIOS setup (which I can do).
What did I do wrong and how do I get rid of the beep beep?




Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum w/ Phoenix Award BIOS
CPU: AMD ADA3800DAA4BW AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 2.4GHz Socket 939 89W Single-Core
HsF for the CPU: Cooler Master RR-CCH-L9U1-GP Hyper TX2 92mm
Memory bank 00 A+B: OCZ OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K Platinum 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit
Memory bank 01 A+B: Corsair VS2GBKIT400C3 Value Select 2GB (2 X 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit, Lifetime Warranty
Video card 01: Asus EAH3850/G/HTDI/512M ATI Radeon HD3850 515MB 2DVI/HDCP PCI_Express
Video card hsf 01: Asus (just whatever the stock fan on the card is)
Hard drive 01: Seagate ST3400633AS-RK Barracuda 7200.9 400GB SATA
Hard drive 02: Seagate ST3500641A-RK Barracuda 7200.9 500GB PATA
Hard drive 03: Seagate ST3160023A-RK Barracuda 7200.7 160GB PATA
Optical drive 01: NEC ND-3520A
Optical drive 02: NEC ND-3520A
Power supply: MadDog MD600SCPS 600W
Case: Antec SX1040BII
Front case fan top: Scythe SA0825FDB12l KAMA FLEX 80mm
Front case fan bottom: Rosewill RFA-80-BL 80mm 4 Blue LEDs
Rear case fan top: Antec (just whatever the stock fan in the case is)
Rear case fan bottom: Antec (just whatever the stock fan in the case is)
Monitor 01: Dell 2001FP UltraSharp 20 inch LCD Monitor
Operating System: MS XP
Mouse: generic generic generic PS2
Keyboard: generic generic generic PS2
Audio card: Creative Audigy2ZS Sound Blaster
Speakers: Logitech X-240 2.1
Aux IDE controller: Rosewill RC-200 PCI IDE (ATA) Silicon Image RAID (0/1/0+1/JBOD) Host Controller Card
Drive bay cooling: Cooler Master LHD-V04 CoolDrive 4

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Troubleshoot by running only the components necessary to boot. That is have the cpu, 1 stick of ram, video card, and keyboard plugged into the motherboard. If you no longer have the 2 short beeps, then attach the other components one by one.

Alternatively, perhaps you have a little Nash Rambler in your motherboard.

 

[imported_harlanpepper]

Could be a few things. But I'd start with the suggestion above to just connect the minimal number of components and work up from there. If you're getting beeps with the above, swap sticks of RAM and try again. Also, consider these possible beep causes to focus where you're looking:

1 short: system boots successfully
2 short: CMOS setting error
1 long, 2 short: monitor or graphics card error
continuous long beeps: graphics card not inserted correctly
continuous short beeps: power error