Hi, a friend of mine has an HP 8756c which was running xp home until a few days ago. It was plugged into a surge protector and the power went off and came back on, but the computer would only show the blue HP Invent screen. The hdd light is staying on, and the keyboard light blinks repeatedly. I unplugged everything from mobo and took out cmos battery, still can’t do anything with keyboard or access bios via F1. I took out memory and uplugged all from mobo and got beeps from the mobo, 8 total (1-3-3-1 sequence) The mobo is a Mercury MEW AM, and according to HP, it should have been running Mercury bios version 1.1, but I’m pretty sure I remember seeing Phoenix when messing with it while it worked a couple months back. HDD tested good, FDD won’t come on, and both cd drives light up and open. I put in a pci video card thinking it may have knocked out onboard video, but that didn’t change anything. Any ideas or is it time for the dumpster?