Ya think my mobo has died?

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Machine was fine last night, every day for over three years. Got a new mobo and chip, so I pulled my P2B-LS out and installed it in a different case.

The weird thing was, after setting it down then picking it up, I noticed some of the pins for the front panel had been bent (power switch, reset, HDD LED, etc), but not all. I gingerly bent them back again.

Then bootup gave me a repeating beep that sounded like a French police siren, but no bios screen. I tried putting it back in the original case with original config, machine wouldn't boot at all, not even a beep. Tried two different video cards, two different IDE cables, two different boot devices (SCSI vs IDE), etc. CPU fans were spinning, but that's it.

So I went bare essentials: I jumper-disabled SCSI and LAN. I jumpered-off the keyboard power. I used a single IDE boot drive (master) and CD (slave), floppy and video card only. The hard drive wouldn't spin up, the CD had no power (couldn't open the door, LED dead), still not bios screen, etc. So I unplugged the IDE cable from the primary, and voila! The drive spun up, the CD suddenly had power.

Any ideas of what I may have done wrong? Or is the blasted thing scrap silicon?

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When you removed the mobo did it appears some of those pins must have rubbed against something and that might be the problem. Did you try a different cpu or go back to the old one? Also try with the mobo out of the case and on something like cardboard, just to test.

I'd go to the website of whoever makes the mobo and find the beep codes, that should narrow the problem down. Your manual might have them.