hey.
tried what you said but nothing worked. unplugged everything from back, wiped RAM contacts made sure everything was connected inside the case.
tried to turn it on using only power cord and monitor cord. didn't work.
there is not much more to say about the problem sorry.
can the graphics card be causing the problem? the unnaturally long beep (and once every 5 or so tries, no beep at all)?
Its a GeForce 6600GT 128mb PCI-E 16x. no other gfx cards to test on and mobo doesn't have onboard graphics.
Thanks.