You already gave your answer to the problem, you said it does not post Ie one beep of the bios to say all the hardware checks out ok. But you said when you take the memory out it gives you eight beeps to say there is no memory fitted in the system. That means the bios is working first of all so the board cannot be at fault. And the second is if it does not boot on replacement of the memory it has something to do with it.
Try http://www.enounce.com for flash files. You can speed up and slow down the playing speed. They have a free 7 day trial and the price is under $30. You can also adjust the play speed in windows media player for avi files. Select a) Now Playing, from the top toolbar, b)  Enhancements, c) Play Speed Settings.
Quicktime controls. I couldnât immediately see how to do it, but a quick search turned up what I needed for QuickTime Player X: On either side of the Play/Pause button in the controller bar, are the Reverse and Fast Forward buttons. Click one of these buttons to double the playback speed. The Reverse or Fast Forward button appears in the top left corner, along with â2xâ to indicate the playback speed.