KT3 Ultra 2 Problems, help !!!

I just installed the my new KT3 Ultra2 mainboard but when I boot the screen stays blank and the diagnostics LEDs show 1 and 2 red, 3 and 4 green, meaning according to the manual : " Initialzing Hard Drive Controller" .  There it'll stop. The Harddrive itself is ok cause I tried it in my old comp. ...what could be wrong ?

ohh...I forgott, and it makes 2 long beebs !

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