DKA790GX Platinum Bad, Cause?

So over the weekend I transplanted my DKA790GX Platinum from my Antec Nine Hundred Two to a Thermaltake Kandalf LCS liquid cooled case. I ran the system for 24 hours without the 24 pin and 4 pin power to make sure there were no leaks and all was good. I hooked up the motherboard and booted it up. I ran Orthos for about 15 minutes and the computer powered down. All of the BIOS settings were the "fail safe" settings except for 2.1v on the memory and 1066Mhz for the Kingston HyperX.
System Config:
DKA790GX Platinum
AMD 940 BE 3.0Ghz
8 Gb (4 x 2gb) Kingston HyperX
2 x Radeon HD4870
Corsair TX850 Power Supply
DLink Wireless-N PCI Card
I disconnected the 24pin and 4 pin and jumpered the powersuppy and everything in the computer powered up. I connected the 4 Pin and 24 Pin connector to the motherboard and everything would power on briefly, for a split second. LED's on the fans would flash and fans would rotate slightly. I removed all but memory and cpu and removed the motherboard from the chassis and hooked up the 4 pin and jumpered the 24 pin, and the same would happen. The fan on the power supply would rotate slightly and power off. I used another 350w power supply from another computer and hooked up the 4 pin and nothing would happen. I hooked up the Corsair 850w Power Supply to the other computer and it powered up fine. So I have narrowed it down that it's the Motherboard. The same happened before with an earthwatts 750 power supply and figured it was the power supply. I exchanged the power supply for a Corsair TX850 and everything worked fine. I also tried another CPU and RAM. Could this have been something that the motherboard was already bad (purchased from Newegg.com as an "Open Box" purchase) on 3/22/2009. If not, what could have possibly happened to cause the motherboard to fail?

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8 Gb (4 x 2gb) Kingston HyperX
Set the memory to DDR800 speed, 1066 only works well with 1 stick per channel, 2 per channel is mostly causing problems.
(See sticky about it)
Powerdown is mostly due to an overheating CPU, check the BIOS how hot it becomes.
When it does get very hot, redo the CPU-cooler.
In my opinion you made a mistake with it.

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Quote from: MSI Tech. 11/06/2008
There is no problem with the on board HD3300 VGA which can support the full 1080P resolution which be sure to have the latest mb bios and a fresh/clean OS installation and follow by updated system and device drivers installation which there is no problem to support the 1680x1050 when the monitor can support it: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1552 ** http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1552
Customer Service's answer
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Dear customer,
The onboard VGA performance is lower than external VGA. It is normal.
Best regards
MSI technical support team
Tech support while correct didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, and the broken english is difficult to read. The customer service answer is ridiculously false, I have to wonder if this employee ever bothered to look up the answer (yes an IGP is typically less powerful than a discreet video card but the goals I was after were well within the card's capabilities. The fact that I was able to resolve the issues proves that). I hold MSI hardware in very high esteem. I've never had a problem with an MSI product that wasn't caused by another part failing (my K9N-Neo F in my previous computer popped a cap in the northbridge when the PSU blew out, and my wife had an MSI board literally melt a few years back in a power surge, neither was MSI's fault) but my estimation of their customer support has dropped a few notches today.
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Quote from: BuD_Sp3NcER on 06-March-09, 03:35:29
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rgds

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hello, I checked to see if there was any updates for my motherboard, it seems to have been removed from msi site (and never existed according to the search engine)
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