No POST, No Beeps ***** solved *****

Greetings all,
Need some help on this one,
I set up my system the other day with new mobo ram and gpu,
Turn it all on and nothing,
Will not post or beep,
I have tested in and out of the case checked the ram and psu and changed gpu still the same,
I have tested the cpu in a mtes mobo and all ok so this has got me stuck,
Info :
Mobo :  K9A Platinum ( bios sticker info : 686 Amibios Va 71 1424 )
Psu : Hiper typr R 580W
Cpu : Amd athlon 64 x2 6000
Gpu : BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB PCIe 2.0
Ram : OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5
Just can think what it can be,
Would really apreachate any help you can give,
Kind regards
Steven

Greetings,
Not been able to test with another psu as yet now,
Here is the link for my psu you mite be able to work more out than me,
http://www.hipergroup.com/products.php?lv=3&cate=1&type=30&pid=10&w=1440&h=713
I have not touched jbat pins so i guess its on default as this point,
As for the power connectors use all of them,
- ATX 24-pin power connector
- ATX 4-pin 12V CPU power connector
- ATX 4-pin VGA power connector
Also tested with just the 24pin conector,

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    Quote from: loonym on 06-March-08, 08:58:24
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    Sierra2 below- the office deskietop being refurbished...
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    Removed all but the wireless keboard and the tethered mouse - and it has settled down - but am now getting three short beeps at the start.  In setting this up yesterday - no beeps at all with a USB mouse and standard keyboard connector.  Sound at start is maybe one beep and two short ones or three short ones - neither of us listening can tell.  I guess I need to hook up the case speaker as the board speaker is pretty small.
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