K8N Neo Blank Screen on boot up... D-Bracket combo is..

The D-bracket led shows
red red
Green red
1-Green lower left = Initializing Keyboard Controller
Don't quite understand what it means... I left it on for about 30 min yesterday but won't do anything...
Mem: Corsair XMS4000 pro
CPU: S754 AMD64 3700+ OEM
Please help. Thanks

I'm having this exact problem which sounds the same as these 2 threads:
!HELP! Comp wont post!
Help K8N Wont start
I will try the advice in this thread when I get home, i.e. the "jiggle the handle" method that rocketman2047 says works.
If that doesn't work I will have to find some old RAM and see if that can get me to the BIOS long enough to change the setting to something more stable (I hope).
I just put this thing together last night and it booted up on the windows install CD and then it seemed to freeze up so I hit the reset and now I have an $700 machine that does nothing but beep at me.
K8N Neo Plat.
AMD 64 3000+ retail
Radeon 9800SE
2x256 OCZ400512ELDCPE-K
Unplugged everything else (even the case fans) to no avail.

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