Win XP boot errors

[Total Immortal]

I did, I tried swapping the ram and nothing works. And it still won't detect my keyboard. I tried a different keyboard, and it would not detect that either. I'm wondering if there is a problem with the current floppy drive. It seems like that might be where the ticking is coming from. Is there a way I can turn off the floppy drive? I tried booting up the computer without the floppy connected, and it gave me some stupid error about the floppy drive failing.
On a side note, I installed the hard drive as a slave on my dad's office computer, and when it booted up, the keyboard and the mouse did not work either.

I think the biggest issue here is I NEED to get the computer to detect the keyboard, because I obviously can't do shit without it. I can't get into BIOS, I can't tell it to boot off of the XP CD...

 

[Osiris]

you can disable floppy detection in the bios, or better yet, unhook the floppy drive..

 

[Total Immortal]

Well I tried that, and it's not the floppy drive... the beeping is coming from the mother board, I was able to figure that much out. it even beeps if I power up the computer with zero drives attached. What could be causing this beeping/ticking? It doesn't start beeping right away, it usually takes about 10 seconds after the on button is pushed, right before it tries to detect which drives are connected on the IDE channels.

 

[Osiris]

your mobo is probably bad. if the keyboard isnt working, its probably safe to say its done

 

[Total Immortal]

Well shit, looks like I'm off to Newegg.. this motherboard is an ASUS A7N266-C. Do you think I could recycle the ram from this with a new mobo? I have two 512meg Corsair XMS chips, and it would be a shame to waste them.

 

[Osiris]

hell yea, keepem. just get a new mobo that supports them