MSI P43-C51 hours of anguish, distress and burnt money

Hi there, I got a P43-C51 motherboard, and I wanted to make those 16GB of DDR3 working... but..
I have an Intel E5200 Wolfdale cpu, and wanted to have 16GB of memory in order to make smoother my programming stuff and other actions...
So, I've received the motherboard, took my working CPU and installed it on my new mobo.. inserted some kingston DDR3 1600Mhz RAM, and my ati 4850 graphic card and got what... nothing.. the thing won't boot.
All fans are working, when I connect the lan cable the mobo lan port blinks like it should, but.. only phase 2 and 3 leds lit.. no response from phase 1.
Yesterday I've bought a DIMM of 2GB 1333Mhz Corsair memory.. and the same. Today I've bought Transcend 2x1 DIMMs of 1GB DDR3 1333Mhz.. and got the same negative results.
I've connected the 24 pin PSU connector plus the 4 pin 12v cpu connector. The Motherboard cpu contacts seem to be ok.
When I connect a speaker to their jumper I got no sound feedback for any error that could be happening.
Already cleared CMOS, and even took the batery off and on..
I'm going crazy, what can I do now?

When changing processor it is important to clear CMOS. Settings are not the same with every processor, of course. You pull power cable out first.
Some work, but since it seems to be a processor problem, you should also check the seating. You can do that and above at the same time, good opportunity to do so. You have to clean off old grease and apply some new thermal grease. I do do do recommend having motherboard out of the case when seating a processor.
Off: My work associates did C+ and C++ programming with 15'' screens and Pentium II at 133 MHz. You don't need much!   
I am not sure to what extent, but head boss Chief I believe did a lot of programming on the fly with a 33 MHz drag-able computer, big as a suit-case, overclockable to 66 MHz if memory doesn't fail me.

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    My concerns are on the bios  high incriments on the cpu voltage adjuster i can only adjust with increments of 1.141 next is 1.441 then 1.641 is it too high?
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    And as a backup plan if all fails when trying to OC flashing bios is the right thinkg to do?
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