K8D Master-F High/Low beep tones

Hello,
Running the system even on bare minimum (PSU, memory and CPUs only) the board will not post and will only return a constant high then low tone beep code. Information from AMIBIOS suggests faulty CPUs, but this is doubtful that both CPUs would be damaged (I've tried one at a time, and in different sockets), as their serial numbers are quite a distance apart.
Anything else I can try? or do I have a dead board?
Thanks in advance,
LJP

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Originally posted by Wonkanoby
it would help if you listed full hardware specs
and psu details
the 4 pin 12v feed is connected?
the ram is registered ddr ?
Full specs:
MSI K8D Master-F motherboard
2x Opteron 240 CPUs
4xGiel 512mb Dual channel ddr 3200 ram (even with all removed it gives the high low beep tones)
This board uses a SSI compliant PSU, its 24 pin main power, 8 pin additional power. 550W supply thats in it.
*Mass of edits*
Couldn't tell you if its registered DDR, ram isnt the problem though, it would give a ram error beep code running with no ram onboard, yet it still has the high/low beeptones.

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