MSI 990fxa-6d65v2 No Post, No Video, No Beeps, and verified everything DOES work

Well basically i will start with this i bought this for my brother as a Christmas gift and it still isn't working 2 god damn months later. I was reading this post (http://) forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=165453.0
and it sounded very similar to my problem except about 1000000000000000000 times less complicated due to everything i have tried since this has been an ongoing problem, and i basically just gave my brother a crushed dream for Christmas i would like to get it fixed. Plus his B-day just passed yesterday and all i had to give him for that was disappointment, words cant begin to describe the anger, frustration, depression, and sadness this has caused me. And to eliminate well pretty much EVERY question you could have, because i am 99.9999999% sure i have tried every single possibility, i will refer you to the other forum i have it posted in ( i just think you guys can help me more). Since the bios did jack , i think it might be what someone was saying like the vbios or something anyways here it is, in all its glory (make sure your sitting for all this)
PLEASE READ THROUGH IT THOROUGHLY...
(www.)tomshardware.com/forum/383169-31-post-video-beeps-verified-work

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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GG
IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i don't care how gay this makes me sound i could seriously make love to you right now dude. I haven't been this elated in a very very very very very very very very very long time. I JUST CANT BELIEVE SOMETHING FINALLY WORKED !!!!!!!
Please understand my excitement:
i spent almost $1500 on this build
    i'm in college so i dont really have a lot of spare money
i got it for my brother for christmas
    i bought parts i KNEW were compatible yet all i gave him was disappointment
i tried LITERALLY every single suggestion i could find ANYWHERE online
    despite what i tried (even though it worked for others) nothing could fix it
i tested each and EVERY hardware component individually and verified they worked
    even though the CPU, GPU, MOBO, RAM, HDD all tested fine when put together... nothing
Two months roll by and my brothers god damn Birthday arrives and the only gift i have for him is broken hopes
    I (only for a slight second) thought that the psu might actually be the problem
So i even (mainly to satisfy the idiotically overwhelming amount of ppl who claimed it was this) bought another brand new PSU, since almost everyone was SOOOOO sure that the problem was the PSU....
    after spending another $120 on a really nice PSU it turned out that, gosh it wasn't the PSU
After calling MSI and explaining this all to them, they said "Wow, that a lot of stuff, it sounds like the only thing left to try would be to update the bios, because from what you have told me, it sounds like you have eliminated everything else."
    So i download the newest bios AVAILABLE ON THEIR SITE, and update it, and then in a turn of
    events not shocking in anyway at all and totally expected, it did jack .
    Even though MSI claimed that they actually "tested" the 7950 on that board and it worked, they even said that
    it should work right out of the box..... oh really is that so.........
Throughout the entire time (and i do mean EVERYDAY) since pretty much christmas i have been on the internet trying to find answers or ppl who have had similar problems. I took what gigabyte said into deep consideration
"How could they have added support for that card, if the GPU was  manufactured at a latter date than that of the
motherboard."
    Well i figured that the latest bios, being that it was the only one they offered on their website would fix that....
After the suggestion of the beta bios by "flobelix" i had about a 99.9% assurance that it wouldnt work, i mean after everything this what reason was there to have any hope. I was going to (if it didn't work) call MSI and tell them i am sending back the gd65 and i want to exchange it for the gd80, because regardless of what they say about the card and its compatibility, OBVIOUSLY there is some sort of problem.
    HOWEVER, IT DID WORK AND I AM FREAKING OUT WITH JUST OVERWHELMING JOY!!
    it feels really good more than anything to do this for my brother
With all that, i think it is bullshit that i had to use a beta bios, to put it more bluntly an experimental bios to get the card to work. Clearly the 7950 worked on MSI mobo when they tested it because it prolly had the latest beta bios....
How the hell are all the people that buy the board suppose to get the beta bios, i mean you dont have it on your website, is everyone that buys a new GPU suppose to just go through two agonizing months of frustration and depression before they get an answer?
MSI needs to address this issue asap, at the very least they need to offer the beta bios on their website. I have been buying from MSI for almost 10 years and i have always been happy but this situation really pissed me off. I am not going to stop buying from them because i think they are a really good company but, they need to stay on top of  like this A LOT better.
Therefore to conclude this all, i am extremely happy to have this finally resolved, i cannot thank you guys enough i really cant.

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