My HP Pavilion A1710N wont boot past the HP INVENT Screen

I have a HP A1710N desktop, Ive had it for little under 6 years now and recently replaced the motherboard, hard drive, power supply, and added 5 gigs of ram to it, and upgraded from the 32 bit operating system to the 64 bit windows vista home premium, my problem is this, I reformated my hard drive and after I reinstalled and updated my computer I rebooted, after that all it did was start up at the HP IOnvent screen and didnt do anything, I can hear and see the fans going and hear the hdd going, my dvd drive opens and so on, but it would not boot any farther, I took everything out and cleaned it up and reordered the ram chips, and still same thing.
I then took everything except the dvd drive, mother board, and power supply out and put into a differant computer and everything works perfect.
my question is this, could my power supply cause that or do I need to replace my mother board agian
my computer specs
Hp A1710N
Athlon 64 X2 (W) 4200+ 2.2 GHz
1tb hdd
1tb external hdd
ati msi hd 4550 graphics adaptor
6 gig ddr2 ram (2x2 gig + 2x1 gig)
250 watt power supply

this problem is realy easy to fix. first take the cmos battary out. next make sure there are only two ram stick in must be 2gb . plug them in on the right side  also make sure the power cord in unpluged . then let it sit for 5 mins or so. plug it in with the cmos batarty still out. it will turn on but the monitor will not show anything thats a good thing tho.  unplug again then put the cmos battary back in . make sure the hard drive is pluged in good. plug back in and it will start all by its self. and boot up. it will ask you to start normal or to check the start up. run the check and it will restart and work good. after that run window disk clean . windows up date. it shut down and put the ram in if you have more. allways make sure its unplug . the static from you and your hand may cause it to do the same thing over again. this is why the problem happen in the first place. some power supply's have a on/off switch you must still unplug the power cord.  and wait 30 sec or more to let the power supply drain or dump the power out.  THIS WILL WORK 100% of the time.

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