Breadboarding for first time

When I turn on my newly built computer, I get no response what so ever except for the keyboard lights light up when I turn the PSU switch on.

So, I'm going to do some breadboarding for the first time, but I have some questions first.

1. I'm worried about ESD on the motherboard and other components. How do I prevent this? Should I rest the motherboard on the anti-static sleeve it came packaged in?

2. How do I get the system speaker? There is one attached to my case. Do I use that?

3. How do I turn the system on/off?

Sorry here are my specs:

(All brand new ordered from Newegg.com)

Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H

Memory: Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600)

Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3750528AS 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"

Optical drive: Samsung DVD burner

Case: Antec NSK 6582 Silver / Black 0.8 mm Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 430W Power Supply

Thanks for any help

JSC wrote a breadboarding guide, you might want to read through it
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] _13_0.html

You can do it on any nonconductive surface, cardboard, wood, or an antistatic bag.

There is a link for a place to buy a small case speaker in our troubleshooting guide incase you cant get the one out of your case
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] o-problems

Turning it on is easy, find the pins that would be connected to the power button, and short them with a screw driver, this is all your power button does as it is just a simple momentary push button switch.