Cannot get BIOS to Boot from Drives

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I recently had a bad experience with an Intel D865PERL board that died,
and additionally, would then not boot. The Intel screen stays on
forever, the system beeps, and says "Press F4 to enter setup" and then
just halts.

I replaced the board with the same model and am having the exact same
problem. I have tried updating/flashing the BIOS, resetting the CMOS
battery, unplugging each hard drive and other IDE device, and the thing
will not boot. Same exact problem: Press F4 to enter setup. I cannot
even get the thing to boot from CD or floppy.

The weird thing is that *sometimes* I get a message "Reboot and Select
proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device." The
IDE devices are properly read in BIOS Setup.

What could the problem be?
 
You've removed the battery,then moved CMOS jumper pin from 1-2 to 2-3
position for .45 sec. or so,replaced battery,start computer.If the exact same
results are present from old board,i'd say processor or power supply.Take
either to computer shop,test on other board...
 
I recently had a bad experience with an Intel D865PERL board that died,
and additionally, would then not boot. The Intel screen stays on
forever, the system beeps, and says "Press F4 to enter setup" and then
just halts.

I replaced the board with the same model and am having the exact same
problem. I have tried updating/flashing the BIOS, resetting the CMOS
battery, unplugging each hard drive and other IDE device, and the thing
will not boot. Same exact problem: Press F4 to enter setup. I cannot
even get the thing to boot from CD or floppy.

The weird thing is that *sometimes* I get a message "Reboot and Select
proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device." The
IDE devices are properly read in BIOS Setup.

What could the problem be?
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Disconnect your power supply from the mobo when resetting your CMOS.

Have you looked up what the beep signals you're getting mean?

Have you recently added new hardware like a modern (high wattage) video
card? I tend to agree with Andrew E., could be your power supply.
 
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