K8N Neo4 build shutting down at random

**Update: I remounted the mobo and tried powering up with just the processor/heatsink, power supply, ram, and video card. No go. I don't know what else to do. It refuses to boot!
Well, my computer worked fine for almost a day. The first thing I did when I got it up and running was update the bios through live update, because I heard the default one for this board is pretty bad. I was also hoping that would fix the sudden unexplained shutdowns, but it didn't affect it. After a few more shutdowns, it finally refused to boot up at all. I turn the power on and nothing happens. I've tried resetting every piece of hardware except the motherboard. I'd rather not take the mobo out if I can help it, but if that's the problem, I will. Any ideas?
Edit: You know, I'm almost positive the motherboard has more spacers installed than I actually used to mount the mobo. Keep in mind, though, that they're not just touching the back of the mobo. I installed one or two more spacers than I needed, but they all had holes. Could that be causing this?
-Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 socket 939 that I bought from geeks.com
-Bios: I used liveupdate, can't remember for sure. The newest one?
-CPU: Athlon 64 4000+
-Memory: 512x2 Corsair ValueSelect in dual-channel mode
-Video card: XFX 7900GS, think the drivers were 93.xx
-Power Supply: this is coming from newegg, where I bought it. It's an FSP Fortron Group 450w.
Output:+3.3V@30A, +5V@28A, +12V1@18A, +12V2@18A, [email protected], +5VSB@2A
More info can be found at:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104954
-Hard Drives: One Seagate 160gb for storage, I think I had it as master because I had a hard time connecting it as the slave drive. 20gb generic for the o/s, slave. They were in IDE 1.
-Optical Drive: 1 CD/DVD-RW in IDE 2
-Operating system: Windows XP Professional, Service pack 1

Quote from: Grayone on 05-January-07, 15:50:44
Removing it from the case eliminates any possibility of something shorting out against the case as well as giving you a chance to examine the back side for discoloration or burn marks.
not sure exactly what to look for, but I don't see anything out of the ordinary on the back of the mobo.
I have a strange update... at first I could use the monitor with my old pc, but an hour ago when I tried to hook it up, it did the same thing it does on the new computer. Lights flash on and off, doesn't come on permanently. This is veeeery strange, because it technically rules out all the hardware in my new pc as the cause of this. To make things stranger, the monitor connects to onboard just fine. It only malfunctions when connected to the Geforce 2 or my new 7900GS. But I have gotten both pcs to boot, monitor included, before. It doesn't make any sense. Early yesterday I had the monitor connected to this old pc through the Geforce 2. Late last night, when I tried to connect them again, it adopted the symptoms of the new computer. So it seems like this problem has to do with the monitor, but I find it strange that it decides to become defective the very same time I'm building a new pc. Plus, it DOES work with onboard.
ugh...

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