hi all,
anyone want to help out with a motherboard problem?
just got a new motherboard (my old one finally died) but i'm having issues with it. hopefully it's just something silly and obvious that i'm overlooking but, anyway, here goes.
the mb is a a VB-601-V (Processor support: Pentium II/III/Celeron, System bus speed: 66MHz, Chipset: Intel 440BX AGPset, Graphics: one 32-bit AGP slot, Memory sockets: four DIMM up to 1GB SDRAM, Expansion slots: one AGP, two ISA, five PCI, Hard drive interface: IDE, External ports: two USB, two serial, one parallel printer, two IDE, Form factor: STX). my CPU is a P3 500 and my drives/periphs include: creative dvd drive, phillips cd-rw, 20gb hd, zip drive, floppy, dxr3 decoder card, sb live! value, 56k modem, ethernet card, nvidia geforce 2 agp and 256 mb ram (2 128mb dimms). when i first connected everything and powered it, i get power to both cd drives, the hd, the zip and the floppy, and my power leds, etc. all work.
the problem: i get no beep when i power on, and i get no video output. so far i've tried the following: the board has 6 tiny switches used to set the cpu internal frequency, reset cmos, etc. so i removed all the periphs and removed power from the drives (leaving only the vid card, cpu and ram on) and set the switches to reset the cmos. then i set the switches according to the motherboard manual... well, the manual says the cpu slot supports P2 and Celeron (but as mentioned i have a P3 and according to overstock.com, where i bought it, the product descrip. says P3 support) and it also says the highest cpu freq. i can set to is 450MHz (i have a 500MHz cpu). anyway, having removed all my hardware (save cpu, ram and vid card) i booted again, still no video output. to sidestep the inevitable, yes the video card and monitor work.
so... uh... any suggestions?

Did you look up on the internet oyur MB information. A lot of sites have detailed pages on individual MBs and you can find out once and for all whether oyu board supports PIII. If it doesn't, someone lied to make a sale.