I know this has been said BUT K8N plat won't post

I am at my wits end with this damn thing.  I have installed a ton of PCs and never as much trouble as I have with this AMD64 3000.  First I ordered it with the Chaintech 150 board after reading great reviews on it.  That was my mistake for not looking at the forums to see what the real users say.  
OK after RMAing the board back and forth and getting jack I gave up on it, set it aside and got the MSI K8N.  Installed it with the things below only and actually got the power to stay on only to lock on keyboard and not post.  
I then read everything I could find in forums and tried everything that was suggested on top of what is the usual steps and got squat.  I am wondering now if the board is bad and I need to RMA it.  Has anyone found a fix to this post problem as I see a lot of people have had it.  I can tell you that my board is not shorted out, I tried other ram and am convinced that is not the problem.  Went and bought a new USB keyboard I did not need and still crapo.  God what I would not do to see a bios screen or even a post!
Any other suggestions?  If I RMA this and get the same damn problem I swear I am going to start looking for my chainsaw!  
2 months and counting while Doom3 sits unopen!  

OK I tried moving the SATA connect to all the other 3 plus I moved the mem.  I think now I have tried about every combo with the mem and have had no luck.
One thing that I didn't mention as I thought it was part of how this mobo sets up, but as soon as I plug in the power cable and turn on the PS the PC powers up.  I then can control it via the power switch., but if I unplug it then it will repower as soon as the plug is reinserted.
I let iit sit in this error state for quite some time also and it doesnt appear to be a heat issue.  There has to be something simple that I either did wrong or am missing.  I have read a lot of post of people with this exact same problem and now I am getting emails of more having the problem and asking me to let them know what worked.  It would have to have been a really bad Monday at MSI for this many boards to be faulty(and that is humor as I think it has to be something I am missing).
Oh and the Chaintech board would powerup for a split second then shut off.  It never made it near a post .   Read someplace that Corsair mem would not work with the Chaintech (plus many others) and decided to switch to the mobo choice most forum people were suggesting for a AMD64.
I appreciate all the suggestions.

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