K8n Neo 2 Platinum Board Booting issues

# CPU brand, model and speed (E.G. AMD Athlon64 3000+ 'Venice' core) AMD 3800+ Not sure of Core
# Motherboard model (E.G. K7N2 Delta2 Platinum, NOT just MS-6570!!) K8N Neo 2 Platinum
# Memory brand, type/speed, size, number of sticks (E.G. 2x Crucial 512MB DDR400) Kingston KVR400x64c3a/512 x2
# Video card brand, chipset type, memory size (E.G. Gainward Geforce 6800GS 512MB AGP) ATI Radeon 850 Pro 256MB AGP
# Hard drive(s) brand, size, type, speed (E.G. 2x Seagate 200GB SATA150) 2x Hitachi 80GB SATA150
# Any other peripheral cards and devices (E.G. MSI TV@nywhere Plus TV card, MSI DigiVOX USB2 TV tuner) D-Bracket 2
# Operating system and version (E.G. Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2) Windows XP Sp2 / Ubuntu 7.10 / Vista Ultimate
# Power Supply Unit brand and output in watts and DC output (amps) TurboCool 510 ATC-PFC ( Taken from a Vapochill SE Chassis ) Originally had been Tagan TG480-U01 however it just blips the power on and off so thinking it is faulty.
I have replaced my motherboard as I had thought it originally was a duff BIOS chip as despite reflashing it, it would rarely pass the POST.
All parts apart from the PSU are the original Kit which had been working for 13 months ish.
Problem i am experiencing is the D-Bracket 2 Diagnostic LEDs are coming up Red/Amber as opposed to Red/Green and the machine just sits there and never displays anything, hence why BIOS isn't mentioned as I have no idea what version is currently on the BIOS chip.
I have stripped out down to just CPU and still get the same problem, I then swapped it for a FX53 which I had lying around which I know worked as it came out of my Vapochill chassis and also swapped out for some OCZ PC3700 512MB EB Dual Channel Platinum 3-3-2-8.. still no joy.
Any ideas greatly appreciated as I don't want to rebuild my machine as it is exactly how I wanted it I feel I have checked everything but maybe someone can shed a little light.
Anyone want a spare mboard or two ?? I now have three !

Your Tagan's behavior was typical of a failing PSU... but the Turb-Cool model you mention doesn't exist at the PCP&C web site; in fact there are a total of five other 510 models, some of which have only an 8-pin CPU power connector, so it's impossible to figure which one you have. Does your PSU have a 4- or 8-pin CPU power connector and, if the latter, how do you have it connected to the mbrd? The only 8-pin CPU power connector I've seen could not be connected to a 4-pin socket, which your mbrd has... or does your mbrd have both 4- and 8-pin?
The only other thing I'd remark is that Vista will not run satisfactorily with your nForce3 mbrd and an ATI video card.

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New to the forum so forgive me if I make any mistakes.
Ive been trying to find some info on the k8n neo 2 platinum, but I havent found anything related to my problem, only some info on the k8n neo.
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MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum Problem

A lot of things could be wrong but it will be easier to figure out if we know what you did. When you say you changed settings in Bios, do you remember your last settings and what you did?
It might be helpful if you created a sig (as described in the forum rules) to show what you have in your system like my sig below. (Hint- use profile button in sign on screen.)
Things could be broken even if there is no visible evidence (such as flames or melted component) of course.
If I had to guess and your d-bracket reading is correct, corrupted bios requiring new bios chip, but let's not guess as a lot of things could be wrong and you don't want to invest in a new bios chip if the board cannot be brought back to life. Consider removing parts and testing them in an other machine. Start with CPU and memory?
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