for a friend of mine who only had money to buy some components.

I have it all together, new ASUS motherboard, new AMD AM2+ 2.1 Ghz processor, 4 Gb of memory and the such.

I power it on and I get No Video and No Beeps to say something is wrong.

Ok...it's been over 10 years since I have built a computer from parts.

What could be wrong if I have no video at all....no even with the bios startup.

Does the motherboard need to be isolated from the chassis?

I have double and triple checked all connections and it all looks good.

SATA 1TB drive, and Samsung CD/DVD-RW drive (also SATA)

I pulled the processor tonight and there aren't any bent pins that I could find.

Any advice?