New box does not load BIOS

[sweetser at TheWorld.com (Doug Sweetser)]

Hello:

Mark was kind enough to give me a PCI video card.  With and without
the AGP card in the slot, the board does not post, the word I have
learned having to do with the first beeps and signals that a computer
makes after being given power.

The RAM had worked in another computer.  That leaves three types of
problems: the motherboard (new), the cpu (new), or the way everything
is connected.  I confess to inexperience.  I figure it only takes one
wiring blunder to silence a motherboard.  If anyone in the group likes
to solve this sort of hardware problem, I could bring the hardware
with all the manuals to you this weekend (I'd probably also buy a new
motherboard because I need something to work).  This sounds like a
game of swapping parts until things work, and experience is a key to
win.  Please email me if you could do this sort of charity work.

Thanks,
doug