MSI 6380 K7T266 Pro Boot problem

My computer will not boot. The D-LED on the motherboard (MSI 6380) shows one of the LED in red when booting. Since I do not know is that's LED 1 or 4, the following is the reference from the D-LED in the manual:
1. Testing RTC (Real Time Clock)
2. Boot Attempt - This will set low stack and boot via INT 19h.
Can someone help me?  What seems to the problem and how to resolve it?
I am using the following:
MSI 6380 (K7t266 pro), BIOS ver 1.9, PC2100 DDR (256mb), 64mb 4x AGP, 80gig HD, NIC, CDR, and 56K Modem.

put power on and off agian, acpi enabled !! in bios, do not use pci slot 1 and 5, if there is Creative and a modem on that place

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