875p Neo - PC halts on Cold Boot (Initalising Keyboard)

Everytime I press the power on button on my PC you can hear the power start up, cd and dvd rom light come on and hard disk light comes on for a short period of time.  If you then press reset or press the power on and off again - it all springs to life !!!!!   !!!
 :O  This problem is Pi*#ng me right off!!! Loads of people are complaining of it - what are you doing about it MSI???
I Cleared the Cmos, upgraded to 1.4 bios but that made no difference.
My spec is:
· Enermax 430watt PSU
· MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R Motherboard
· Intel P4 3ghz, 800fsb Processor
· 2 Geil PC3200 400Mhz 512mb Memory Modules
· Clean install of Windows 2000 Professional
· Coolermaster 201 Aluminium ATX Case
· Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 100GB HD
· Sony DRU-500AX DVD Writer
· NEC DVD Rom
· Gainward Geforce4 Ti4200 X8 AGP with 128mb DDR Ram
. Videologic Sonic Fury Soundcard
· HCS PCI 56k Modem
I looked at the MSI manual, which said to look at the back of the machine at the D-Bracket LED’s, which is supposed to tell you what is wrong. Every time the fault happened the LED’s pattern (according to the manual codes on page 10) showed that it was the “Initialising Keyboard Controller”.
I Changed the Keyboard but the problem still exists. I pulled the machine apart bit by bit to see if any one piece of hardware was the cause - but the problem still occurred! I even tried another PSU and hard disk but NOOOOOOOOO! didn't work.
My mem timings are set by SPD and I have tried lower settings.
I have sent a more detailed version of this to MSI Tech Support 3 days ago - BUT HEARD NOTHING. Arrrrrggggghhhh !!
Anyone with any solutions??? PLEASE HELP!!!!
Trevor Hatley.

Thanks guys, I'll keep that in mind, but I have just heard from my retailer that they are sending me a brand new motherboard!!  Wahoooo!  Great service from http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk
Do you think I should upgrade to 1.5 bios when I get my replacement mobo????
Anyone had any 1.5 problems??
Please let me have your comments.
Thanks,
T Hatley.

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