Hey, rcgreen

Hey, maybe the motherboard wasn't bad after all, just the RAM.
That should have given two BIOS bleeps, which I did ask about?..............

My guess would be that the old MoBo fried and damaged the RAM in the process. When you move that onto a new box it is not recognised as a RAM problem, because the new BIOS never knew what the RAM really should be?

Obviously that is a pure guess