In this paper, existence and multiplicity results for solutions are obtained for the fourth-order boundary value problem (BVP) u((4))(t) + eta u ''(t) - xi u(t) = lambda f(t, u(t)), 0 < t < 1, u(0) =u(1) =u ''(0) = u ''(1) =0, where f : [0, 1] x R -> R is continuous, xi, eta is an element of R and lambda is an element of R+ are parameters. By using the critical point theory and Morse theory, we obtain that if xi, eta satisfy xi/pi(4), eta/pi(2) < 1, then the above BVP has solutions where. is in some different intervals. (c) 206 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.