yet another no boot problem

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i came back today after a holiday, put in the power cable, and switch on my computer. I hear three long loud beeps and in fear
switch of the computer again (so i dont know whether more beeps were going to follow...). From then on i cannot hear anything anymore (coming from my computer).
I first checked my cables, waited a few moments and switched on again. The fans do work, but no beeps, no BIOS action, no OS action, nothing.
I opened the cased, checked whether anything was smoking, checked the cables again, put in a new battery for the BIOS, but also then, nothing happening.... what could be wrong ?
The specs of the computer (which i have been using happily without problems for little more than a year) are:
Motherboard: Portwell - ROBO-679
Intel Pentium III
two S133 - 168pin DIMM, DRAMs
any help is welcome, thanks in advance !