Fry's has a 40-10mir deal for a sargas 140 (sempron - based off of the regor dual core) + a motherboard. If you are near a fry's, see if your local fry's carries the deal.
However, try leaving it in the "on" state for... 2 minutes. It took that long for my motherboard on it's initial boot (because I had to set the OC jumpers to accept a 1066fsb cpu).
No beeps, I thought I had a dead mobo and fretted for a day before I left it on for a couple of minutes while calming down....