P4b266-c won't boot... HELP! ... hehe

[Crackabot]

1.6a northwood
Asus P4b266-c
1- 512 meg stick of crucial pc2100
GF2 gts pro
SB live
Maxtor 20 gig 7200 rpm HD
Linksys 10/100

when I started up for the first time I just got a blank screen but no beeps, I thought maybe the vid card was a problem so I switched it out for my Radeon 8500, still I got nothing.

So I cleared the cmos and tried again with the Geforce, still I got nothing, but at some point on one of my atempts I got a beep code, it was 3 short beeps then a pause, this repeated a few times while I looked in the manual for the code, it didn't match anything in the manual.

I cleared cmos again and reseated the Ram just to be sure, rebooted and nothing exept for a short flash on screen with the vid card info.

so I disconnected the power, took out the cmos battery and put jumper cap on the "clear cmos jumper pins and left it for 30 seconds

I then put it all back together and this time when it started the vid card info just kept slowly fading in and out a few times untill finally it went through a system check.... told me about some checksum error and that bios defaults had been loaded, I hit DEL and got into the bios FINALLY, I only made 3 changes in there, I set the vid card setting for AGP instead of PCI, set the date, and the boot sequence. I hit save and exit and now it's back to the vid card info just fading in and out.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

Thanx.

 

[Drakkhen]

Have you tried just booting up with only the memory and the video card, and processor installed? This would remove the network and sblive from the equation.

Try this and see what happens.

 

[Spoon]

make sure you dont have anything usb hooked up

 

[Crackabot]

Thanx for the response

Yes I tried that, and everything else that seems reasonable, inluding using a PS2 adapter for my mouse, I think the board bad, before I got into the bios the one time I did, I got a checksum error.

OH well, at least Newegg is good at returns.