Boot Problem with 761GX

This story is kind of long but I'll paraphrase it as best as possible.
So I went out and bought a Vista upgrade the Home Premium one. I had run the compadibility tool before and it told me my video card, which was fairly old, was out of date to run the Aero interface. I had forgotten this until I was checking over the specs on the box. I was looking online for a new card when I realized my computer I run Windows Media Center on had an Nvidia GeForce 6200 a card that was compadible with Vista, problem was my mother was AGP and the card was PCI express. Since the motherboard in the TV comp was Socket 939 and the one I had was socket 939 I figured I'd just swap cards and hard drives and switch computers.
So my new motherboard is the 761GX, I have a 40GB in there was XP installed and a 120 for random crap. I was just planning on reinstalling XP and then running the Vista upgrade. When I went to boot it up nothing came up on the monitor (the light didn't even turn green it stayed yellow) and the HDD LED was illuminated and then went out after around 30 seconds. After that nothing happens. After looking around the MSI website I decided to clear the CMOS by moving jumper JBAT1, after moving it back everything worked as it normally would. Except I got a message saying something about CMOS time and date was wrong and then it also said the battery was low. I changed the time and date, it restarted and the same thing happened. The only time it actually boots is after I move the jumper, therefore I can't change the boot order otherwise I'd be fine.
Mind you the MSI board is brand new, not even a month old. Same with the AMD CPU in it.
Here's what I'm running on the board
MSI 761GX Board
1GB (2x 512MB sticks) DDR400 RAM
NVidia Geforce 6200 (Asus EN6200TC512) 256MB PCI Express (Was in the system when it was fuctioning as TV)
AMD 64 4000+ CPU
Western Digital 40GB Hard Drive (ATA 133)
Western Digital 120GB Hard Drive (ATA 133)
Sound Blaster Sound Card
CD-RW Drive
DVD Drive
I did just notice something while I was writing this. On the ATX power connector that connects to the board the top far right yellow cord was not connected, it was outside of the plastic connector. I just tried putting it in, I'm pretty sure that it was in all the way yet it did the same thing, I'll probably screw around with that. I'm not sure if these would by symptoms of that.
Thanks in advance
If you need anymore info just ask.

Hi!
Since you got the message that the CMOS battery is low, you could start by changing it.

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