K8N Neo2 4 Red LEDs system boots fine except...Please Help

Just installed a K8N with new AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with factory heatsink and fan.  Everything boots up fine except that I have 4 Red LEDs.  I am using a 450W power supply...its a powerlab brand (didnt cost very much) but has high voltages, windows seems to be running fine.  Programs run and install etc.  So according to the LED guide the cpu is installed incorrectly...if that was true wouldn't it not run correctly.  If I need to reinstall heatsink how do I go about that since there was a thermal coating on the heatsink already.  
Additonally:
1. whenever I do an audio test the right channel plays out the left speaker and vice versa.
2. When I try to boot with a second HD it locks up during the splash screen.  I messed around with jumpers and nothing seemed to work.
This is my first system build  
Please Help

Let me answer the last, first. Yes you can get different RAM that will perform differently. However not all more Expensive RAM will be faster or more stable. I know some of that does not make the sense you would think but remember that the A64 likes cheapy RAM in a lot of cases better than Uber RAM.
OK back to timings. If you test Bandwidth with say SiSoft Sandra you will see that changing from 3,3,8 top say 4,4,8 will hardly affect the performance. Manybe more so it would affect you if you had the system cranked to max overclock. However even then if would not be anything you will notice say running a game or even in other benchmarks. We went through the same issues with the Via boards and I think you will be suprised with the results. In my case going from 4,3,8 to 4,4,8 dropped my Sandra results from 3031 to 3029. You can even determine that amount of difference and in fact that is within the margin of error for the test.
OK so I still say try it and see if the system runs better. Oh and back to the other question for a moment. When we compaired my cheapie RAM in the Via section to some nice Uber Expensive RAM we saw almost identical results ranginging from 3020-3050 at stock speeds. So unless you are planning to really overclock heavy you likely won't see any difference between $80 per 512MB stick and $150 512MB sticks.
Some food for thought. We tested, you decide.

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