hi m8 .
have u tried booting the system with the bare essentials needed ?
does sound like memory failure.
take a look here to..might help.
www.computerhope.com/beep.

>From: GeorgeMary <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [PCBUILD] New Build will not start
>Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:19:58 -0700
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>Original message*************
>I am putting together a 1.8 MHz celeron, ECS P4VXASD2+ motherboard, DDR
>256Meg PC2100, GigaByte AG32S AGP video card.  So far all I have installed
>are these parts.  The fans spin and the power light comes on, but no
>display.  All I get are beeps.  First one, then 8, then 2, then 1.  The
>board has AMIbios.  I did a search on the codes and thought that they were
>saying something about memory or video card.  I changed the position of the
>memory, and reseated the video card. I also rechecked jumpers and looked
>for
>possible shorts mounting the MB.  All parts are new, but looks like one at
>least is bad.  Does anyone have any ideas on how to narrow it down(I might
>be able to  find a machine to check memory, but don't know about the video
>card, since it is AGP), or does anyone know what the beeps are telling me?
>************************************
>I took all the parts to Frys electronics in PHX and much to my amazement,
>they all checked out individually.  They only thing that I didn't take in
>and check out was the new case.  I'll check the voltages on the power
>supply
>connection tomorrow and if they check OK, I'll hook up the MB on a piece of
>foam to make sure I don't have any shorts to the case that I couldn't see
>before.  Any other suggestions will be entertained.  THX
>George&Mary Skokan ([log in to unmask])
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