System will not boot

I just put together a system useing an iWill KA266r mobo & an athlon 1 ghz processor (266 fsb).

I put everything together and set the cpu multiplier jumpers to "auto" and the bus speed to 133 mhz. When I turn the system on all I get is an error beep once every two seconds or so. If I manually set the cpu multiplier to 7x I do not get the error beep, but the system does not boot. Nothing at all comes over the video card.

I have tried removeing all the unessesary periferals so right now there is nothing in the system except the video card (I have tried two different ones I know work, one agp and one pci).

What could I possibly be missing - and what is the error beep trying to tell me?

Muchas gracias!
Caleb

perhaps the ram is dead. Do you have another pc from which you could test the ram from? Try that. If that doesn't work try phoning the retailer you baught the mobo from. Tell them you're having this prob and the slots may be defective. They might help you. You must have some kind of warentee and they should be willing to atleast give it a look. Hope something works for you. Good luck! Post a status report later.

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