How can I be sure that the motherboard is dead and it's not another issue?

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Published on 2012-09-21T15:20:45Z Indexed on 2012/09/21 15:41 UTC
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So I have and old computer with and Intel D101GGC motherboard and a pentium 4 cpu and award bios, with a long repeating beep and not passing POST.

I tried:

RAM checking, they are good and working on other computers
Replacing the PSU with a tested one, and still having the same issue
I assumed that the CPU is dead and tested 2 others they are both Celeron D processors
I also tested the CPU of this computer on another one and it's working fine
I also tried it without RAM and still have the same long beep

I did all this after disconnecting all the other hardware like HDD and DVD drives.

The only time I didn't get any beeps is after removing the CPU I don't know if the processor is needed for the beeps to work.

So My questions are:

is it normal to not get any beeps if we don't have a CPU installed ?
am I missing something or is the motherboard dead ?

and thanks in advance.

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