One long beep and no video on boot

Just wondering if anyone could help me out with this little problem I seem to be having. I've checked all the connections to the board and everything is right. When I try to boot up all i get is one long high pitched 4 or so second beep that loops every 2 seconds and no video (using onboard video) or anything else.
Even tried using a small 4x video card to see if that was the problem.
System Specs:
MSi p4mam-l microatx mobo
VIA Vt8751a & VT8235 chipsets
p4 2.0ghz celeron processor @400fsb
Corsair ddr266 mem
award 430w power supply
wd 40gb ata100 hd

Pretty long beep but I finally figured it out and got it fixed. Stupid board was flaking out over the corsair mem for some reason. It took six different sticks of ram before i found one that the damn thing would boot up to.

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