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HP Pavilion desktop - wondering if motherboard is fried.

HP-Pavilion AW017AV-ABA e9200z running Win7.  AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.60 GHz  4 GB RAM.  

I was working inside this machine, putting in a second hard drive.  Now suddenly when I turn it on all I get is the sound of the fans.  Monitor says there’s no signal coming from the computer.  I took out the video card, removed hard drives, etc.  Still nothing. I’m wondering if I touched something and fried the motherboard.  If I take out all the ram it does start beeping.  When a motherboard’s gone does it still do that?

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Al
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Alan - did you try the basic tests yet?
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It's a bad stick of ram.  Thanks to all for your help.
Al
As far as I can see I can only pick a best solution and then mark everyone else as helpful. Can't I reward partial points any more?  
Why do they keep on screwing around with these interfaces?  It's annoying.
Anyway, thanks again to everyone for your help.
Al
You are very welcome and I was happy to help you.