If you are getting beeps during what would be the POST screen if you had video, you need to check the beep pattern for these mobos.  That should be in the guide that came with them.  It could be something simple like your video card not being fully seated (remove it and try again), it could be that your RAM is not fully seated or is bad (take out all DIMMs, and reseat them). It could be that your CPU is not properly seated or is bad (take it out and reseat it).  I'd go back and check all of the above, plus check all your ribbon cable connections, and the drive jumper settings. If you can find the beep patterns in your mobo user's guide you'll know where to look for starters.  It isn't likely that both mobo's are bad.

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>>Subject: [PCBUILD] Bad news motherboards?
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>I recently purchased (2) brand new Biostar M6VCF mobo's and, installed them
>in mid-towers with 250watt power supplies. After following the set-up
>procedures outlined in their guides, I encountered the following problems.
>(1)--pushing the power on button lights the power-on led along with the HD
>led and it does it's blinking and such. Then--I get a series of
>long-repeating beeps continously and no video or anything.  Upon pushing the
>power off button and holding it in until it powers off--the power led
>remains on until I open the main power switch. Iv'e tried all combinations
>of video cards,known good processors and, memory but to no avail. The mobo's
>are Biostar M6VCF boards with Award bios and, Via 694x-686b chipsets. Using
>celeron 500mhz ppga processors on 66mhz fsb and clocked at 8.0. S3 savage
>2000 64mb video card, 128mb pc100 ram C 20gb HD, 52x cdrom etc. etc. Like I
>said, Iv'e tried all combinations of these components and both boards react
>the same. Could both of the boards be bad right out of the box or did I
>mess-up or, miss something somewhere.  Never never have had this problem
>before. Is there any help out there with the listers?  TIA,  Edwin Bogert
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