The sequence provided is typical of a Serial Presence Detect (SPD) or SMBus Device Identifier , or a specific BIOS Chip Marking .
Power on. Watch the POST codes. A healthy board should cycle to ER or FF and then beep (no boot device). If it hangs at 01 or 21 , the CPU or RAM slot is dead. intel desktop board 01 21 b6 e1 e2 er