Nothing but continuous beeping

That's all I get when I start up my computer. Continuous beeping.
I have the KT3 Ultra2 board.
I came home and it looks as though it had been restarted. It was at the Windows XP OS selection screen (for some reason I have XP home and pro edition installed so it has this when I start up) and it was locked up. When i hit reset, it wouldn't boot up, just the continuous beeping thing. The lights come on the drives, I can open and close the CD trays, but nothing on the screen. The beeps are infinite, the same pitch, and at equal intervals.
I just got a new processor, motherboard and RAM. After switching to a new power supply, I fried my ABIT KT7A motherboard. I don't know how it happened but it stopped working.  Now I've had this motherboard for less than a week and it won't start up either.
I read some stuff ont he internet and I tried reseating the memory and video card. I've also tried switching power supplies, to no avail. I haven't been able to find out what the continuous beeping means on an AMI bios.
Anyway, if you can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Originally posted by Bas
Hi,
It looks like your ram has gotten broken.....
But it could be the Videocard as well, check if it's seated in the AGP slot all the way in....
Tried all this.
Went to the store and got a new stick of DDR 2100. Made sure it was seated well and tried it in all three slots. Tried a different video card as well, no luck there.
A memory problem, though, makes sense. The little LEDs on the USB bracket show that the system gets to the memory check part (lights 1, 3 and 4 are red, light 2 is green) and stalls out. I read somewhere that if there is an error in the external cache, the system might read it as a memory error and I was advised to reset the external cache. However, I have no idea what this means or how to go about doing it. Could this be a possibility?
Thanks,
Jesse

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