Frozen on msi splash screen

 I built my barebones pc a week ago, using amd athlon 64 3500+, on an MSI K9MM_V motherboard.   Everything perfect until about an hour ago, when it suddenly shut down, and when I tried to reboot it freezes on the MSI splash screen (which says hit "del" for setup, hit "f1" for post.) Neither works, I cannot do anything whatsoever. Cannot even get into the bios.  There is power to the mobo, lights and fans are all working, hard drives spinning, i tried resetting the bios by taking the battery out for about a half hour, i pressed on all connectors to make sure properly seated, etc, everything looks fine. This sounds to me like a motherboard problem, please someone let me know what you think.  Remember, the thing is, there is NO POST, NO NOTHING, JUST THE MSI SPLASH SCREEN, WHICH DISPLAYS INDEFINITELY.  ctrl+alt+del does nothing.  I tried another keyboard, just for the hell of it.   I don't know what to do.  I bought the barebones kit from TigerDirect.com, and I know that they will probably give me an rma but how can I be sure it is the motherboard that is bad, not the CPU?  It was running so nicely, Vista Home Premium.  Thanks for help anyone!!!

Thanks for all the replies.   I tried the reset button as suggested by fenelonm, it did not help.   Then I followed the specific directions to reset cmos as posted by Henry.  For Grayone, here is the entire system:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Socket AM2 CPU
Maxtor 200 GB EIDE hd
Sabrent Ultra ATA 100/133 IDE RAID PCI Control card (Currently supporting 3 additional ide hard drives that I use for storage only.)
Thermaltake A4022 TR2-R1 CPU Fan socket am2
crucial 1044MB PC 4200 DDR2 533Mhz ram
ThermalTake silent cat case fan
MSI K9MM-V Socket AM2 motherboard
Power Up Mid T ATX Case w 450WPSU
BFG Geforce 6200 256 ram AGP video card
thats about it.  I could be so so wrong here but given that I get nothing but the MSI logo on the screen and can go no further, doesn't that have to be either the CPU or the systemboard??  What else could it possibly be?      If the CPU were dead, would I still get the MSI logo splash screen?   This is my dilemma, when I call Tiger Direct I want to be pretty sure which component is bad.    Keeping in mind all the while, the system performed perfectly for a week.  The last thing I did on it was print out a PDF file, went fine.   then shut down, then splash screen, end of the fun......

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