K9N4-SLI-F wont boot.

I bought the k9n4-sli board for my son's xmas. I installed WinXP Pro with the proper sata raid drivers. It post, and then shows the windows logo for about 1 second and then the screen flashes to a blue screen that I can't read cause its only there about a half second. I have 2x 1 gig of OCZ Plat DDR2. Ive installed windows twice. Any ideas?

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MSI P7N SLI - PC Wont Boot - Video error code but changing graphics card no help

((Apologies, I think this should be in the forum for Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad boards))
Hi. Brief description of the issue.
Last Saturday there was fan noise. I ignored that, left the machine on, went out. By Sunday morning the machine had turned itself off. I opened it up, identified the problem as the graphics card fan, failed to fix but put the PC back on figuring I'd have to see about a new card soonish.
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I try everymemory stick in each bank to try start my comp, but nevertless it wont boot again. I have RMA my board and they have tested and works fine!
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The processor model per se should be no problem for your system. Image getting poor after a long while, well, sure it can be a graphics card problem but that should show itself immediately I think. Are you allowed to borrow your friend's PSU? Perhaps you have already?
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And for that color mixing problem, it starts out right at the point when i boot up. Its kinda hard to explain so i tooked few pics from what happens when i boot that PC up, here it goes:
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Ok, so 1st off when i hit power button it gives post screen:
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2:nd pic, just before that "Windows XP loading" -screen blinks up:
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.... and theres the load up screen
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ps. sry for posting pics instead of url's, but i think you get the whole picture easier this way.

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TL;DNR
G5 launch model has had some issues with the graphics card in the last year.
Last night it died again, reseated card and now OSX only boots to the grey screen, with a working pinwheel.
Installed the old FX5200 graphics card
It succesfully boots of the leopard disc, ram appears to be all in order, Disc utility came up with some bad permissions, but reported no problems with 'repair disc'
The computer still wont boot past the grey screen, even with the different graphics card.
It doesn't boot in safe mode either. Infact, that only makes things worse, the fans do the spool up thing that happens when you get a kernal panic.
Any ideas?
Message was edited by: Ducksnake

Well i managed to clear 20 gigs off, this is the most space the computers had in probably a year, i know it can (normally) boot with that much space as it has done so with less for a long time now.
It's gone back to the blue screen. It will get the grey spash, with pin wheel. moments later it flashes to aqua blue as it normally would when loading OSX, but it stops there. And will flash every 20 seconds or so and try again, for infinity.
I re-installed the 9800, and same deal.
I'm also running it with the boot disc at the moment, and it's all running fine, so i thing the 9800 is ok.
I'm going to try and repair the disc and permissions again, and see if it has some more success now it's got a bit of room to play with.

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