Thanks Tom.

Spoke with MSI Tech Support, described all that I had done to resolve the
problem (basically complete disassembly to test each component as you
suggested) and they agreed to take it back and send me another. By the way,
the troubleshooting guide and others I found made the testing task less
daunting and I've learned a bunch of stuff I never knew!

The joys of the home builder...

Regards

Vince

Vince Winterling
Vineland, NJ

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Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] BIOS Problems

The MSI site has a trouble shooting page that seems fairly extensive at
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/sup_tshoot.asp . You may have already
tried it. Problem could just be a jumper on the MB not being set properly -
such as FSB speed (based on where the boot process stopped).
The site also warns about incompatibility of certain video cards with their
MB's.

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