G31TM - P21 boot up bios beeps

I just installed this board into the system. It is unable to boot and gives me 1 beep, sometimes 2 beeps.
I changed memory from a good system and still no results.
I also have this same board and processor and swapped memory from this system to verify if memory was at fault. Memory from bad system shows up good at running system.
any ideas, besides RMA.

Ok, here are my specs
I running a Intel E3300 processor with a MSI G31TM - P21 motherboard with AMI v4.6 bios. I have only one stick of Micron 1 gb pc2-5300 ram installed in slot one. Currently running onboard video. I attempted to run this new setup with a preinstalled 32 bit Vista OS HD(sata, 160 gb). I removed all peripherals with the exception of the USB keyboard/mouse (wireless). No add on cards.
The previous setup was running windows XP on a PATA HD. This info is probably irrelevant since there is nothing similar and I did attempt to run this new system on this PATA  drive (known good) and got the same results (beeps).
I have this same setup (upgrade) that I did about 1 month ago on another system. This "older" system is working fine.
I swapped memory from the "older" system since my research tells me that two beeps is a parity issue. Known good memory from the "older" system resulted in no new results. Both set of windows (XP and Vista) attempted to "fix" my problem but were unable to.
I have reverted in the meantime to the previous setup using the PATA HD with XP os and am having no problems with this setup. 

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    got your vista disk ? great you can use that to boot off of
    if no disks you can find vista boot disks online use a google search to find one to make on another computer then use on yours
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