BIOS lock-ups after upgrading bios to v1.8

Hi,
I have a K8N-Neo FSR motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 2x 512 MB DDR Memory, ATI Radeon 9600XT w/256 mb ram video card.
It worked fine for about half a year now, but now I decided to upgrade my harddisk from a 160GB IDE hard drive to a 300GB S-ATA hard drive.
Copying went fine, but I was not able to boot from the new hard drive, so I decided to upgrade the motherboard bios, hoping that that would solve the problem.
After updating using live update, which went successful, the pc rebooted.
I was able to go in the bios and check the hard disk settings, and everything seemed to be configured properly, so I did exit&save.
After rebooting again, the bios got stuck at the boot logo though, and no response to keys or anything else.
I tried clearing the bios, both with the jumper, and by removing the battery, but the problem remains.
After lots of restarts, sometimes I get a little further where it shows the energy star logo.
Sometimes I am able to get to the bios setup first screen (after which it locks up and I can't do anything)
Other times I just see the first lines, and yet another time I see 'Memory testing'
I can't boot from a floppy either, so I can't downgrade or reinstall the bios either.
On the back panel, the right-bottom led lights up green mostly when it is locked up.
Sometimes the left top led lights up red and the bottom left led lights up green.
Anyone has an idea on how to solve this?
Thanks!

I had same issue for me the fix was to disconnect one of the SATA drives. I am now having all kinds of issue, machine won't boot without 1 sata drive disconnected. Was running fine last night on one drive, now machine is slow as christmas. Takes 15 minutes to load a web page, start menu hangs when coming up for 3-4 minutes. I was fine until the 1.8 BIOS upgrade. I wondered if my motherboard went bad, but then I see three or four others having similar issues. Can the motherboards be returned to MSI for a replacement? While running version 1.8 I had the same issue seemed to boot OK on 1 stick of ram, but not both. Once I flashed back to 1.7 now I can only run 1 harddrive. What the !@#$@!# is going on.

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