[Viking2002]

I would. Without having the resources for any sort of more interactive troubleshooting on it, I'd return the board, and go get yourself another one.

[Corinthian Warrior]

Okay, I replaced the board with one made by gig-byte. I don't have it in front of me right now, I am at work. (no internet at home until the PC works!)

This board seems to work! There is no beep, but that is because my case has the speakers and its connector does not fit the one on the new board.

However, something strange happened when it booted. As it goes through its boot phase, the keyboard is dead. I cannot hit F2 or delete or any other prompt to let me reset its Bios.

It then loads up windows xp, with everything intact from the old hard drive! I would like to keep that! That is good. I thought I would need to reload windows.

But the mouse and keyboard are not operating. I tried all the USB connectors on the front and back of the case. The mouse lights up, but it cannot move.

How do I get the mouse and keyboard to wake up? If this is a Bios problem, how can I talk to the bios without a mouse and keyboard?

Thanks for all your advice. :-)