BAD flash

Hi i jut bought a new Motherboard and cpu and not having a lot of luck with it so far. I installed windows and downloaded drivers and just had downloaded the new bios with live update3 . Everything finished properly and prompted to reboot. After that nothing happened. now i already reset the CMOS and pulled the power plug to see if it would reset but nothing happened. I went on to MSI's website and looked up Bios recovery and it said to create a bootfloppy with autoexec and copy the necessary boot files and that within in 2 minutes the screen would come back. The system does not do anything and won't automatically boot from the floppy. I followed all steps as outlined on msi's website and nothing. Now the system just makes these long beeps. Any ideas ?
Board is MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum.

First if it won't boot from the floppy make sure the floppy cable is firmly seated into the motherbaord and that the end with the twisted witers goes into the floppy drive itself.
Make sure the floppy disk is really good.
Make sure the floppy drive is enabled in BIOS and that Boot order is set to Floppy, cd, hdd.
Let us know what happens when you finally get the floppy drive to boot from a good disk.
Good luck.

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