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I see no reason for why trying on Gigabyte GA-8IE533 would kill the cpu. On the other hand quiet and "dead" system is exactly what a dead bios would do - belive me, ive been there. You could try hot-flashing if you have the other motherboard availible but thats risky (getting out the bios chip while...

No your hardware is okay. The bios is incorrect and it doesnt work on your hardware though. Its bios that beeps and activates the videocard - whitout a working bios your computer is a dead piece of metal and silicon. You have to get the bios out and flush it at some service point - they have special...