MSi P6N Motherboard Issue - Flickering Display in BIOS and WinXP

Hi,
I have recently got a P6N (nvidia 680i) motherboard and the display flickers a lot in both the bios and windows xp. Changing the refresh rate in windows doesn't do anything. I have tried 3 different graphics cards (all nvidia) which all show the same problem.
To rule the memory (Corsair Dominator pc2-6400) and CPU (ore 2 Duo E6400) out... The memory has been verified via memtest86 in another machine and the cpu has similarly been tested (using prime95 - 2 instances to test both cores) in another machine. I can only conclude that the motherboard is at fault in some way.
Anyone else found this problem? Am I missing something or is there a simple fix?
Cheers...

Quote from: DryHeat on 01-February-07, 07:41:14
Rule out the monitor yet?
Yes, tried 2, in any case both monitors work fine with other comps.

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