This wouldn't work unless he has a PCI video card. If it's an AGP card there is no other slot to try.  Most mobos will beep if you have no video card at all, no RAM, no CPU.

>This only applies if you get no video, ie: no black DOS screen, no memory
>count, etc
>Hazarding a guess, (I'm not an expert) but because this sounds like
>something that happened to me one time when I was building a computer
>system...I would say it was the video card...you said it doesn't post, no
>beeps at all??  Well that's also what happened to me..and I thought that if
>there was something wrong with the video adapter, it would beep like
>crazy...however, I moved the silly thing to another slot, turned it on, and
>it booted right up!
>Of course, if it was cooked, it might do the same thing, just refuse to do
>anything...
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>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Machine won't Post
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