MSI RS480M2-IL Frequent PC Power Cycling

I have been having problems with one of my PC's over the past several months.
Problems:
1. Over the past several months the signal to the monitor would be briefly lost ever few seconds on occasion but not always.
2. The other day when I turned on PC it booted up OK but there was no sound. I looked in the Device Manager and there was no mention of the Sound Blaster sound card and there was no volume in the system tray. I booted into the BIOS to make sure that the onboard sound was still showing disabled and it was.
Upon reboot the PC would not boot. There was no signal to the monitor and no hard drive activity. I tried a few more times but the Reset button did not seem to work. I then tried several times to boot a Seagate SeaTools Boot CD. After several Resets I was able to get to SeaTools but the mouse would not work and the PC seemed to be locked up. I tried a few more times with the same results. In desperation I decided to remove the CD and try to boot to Windows and it worked and the Sound Blaster card was showing up now and I have sound. I tried a couple of more reboots and everything seems to be normal.
3. Today, my PC has really started acting up. I powered up the PC and started the Login process and the PC began restarting every few seconds as if it were power cycling. I turned it off with the Power Supply switch and went through the longer than normal task of switching out the power supply (There is a cross-bar which blocks the power supply so that you have to remove the motherboard to change out the power supply.).
Upon startup with the new power supply the PC immediately began restarting every few seconds in the same manner as with the other power supply.
Questions:
1. Could it be the case power-on switch? If so, is it feasible to change it out. (It is an Antec case).
2. Would a bad motherboard cause symptoms like this? How would I determine this since I have no spare motherboard?
3. What other things could be causing this problem?
4. What would you suggest for the next step(s) in diagnosing the problem?
I changed out power supply power cord and it made no difference.
Thank you.

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Have you tried with another and better PSU yet?
How about if you don't use the Creative card?

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My question is should it do this or not as I really don't want another faulty board.
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the underlying "Who's fault is it?" question: AMD64 VENICE CORE (E3) PROCESSORS? or MSI RS480M2-IL MOBOS?
so far, ALL users with this proc/mobo combination HAVE the high (or incorrect) temperature issue. replacing the mobo obviously will not resolve the issue but replacing the proc with one that is NOT a Venice E3 core, does the trick. but of course, not everyone will have the privilege of exchanging their damned proce via the retailer specially if it's beyond the first 21 days of purchase.
in my case, my retailer refused to have the E3 proc replaced with the 'corrected' E6 version no matter how hard you explained the known issues with the E3. no chance of AMD recalling the E3 cores since problems with are only isolated to the particular MSI RS480M2 boards.
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based on what i have observed, my Venice core displays the correct cpu temps (33-35*C) when being used on a MSI K8 Diamond mobo. placing the proc back to the R2480M2 board shows a very unusual 61-63*C bios cpu temp. furthermore, if i touch the stock heatsink/fan cooler that i have (for both motherboards), it really does NOT seem to be extremely hot to think that the cpu is actually overheating. in addition, my system using the RS480M2 performs well and has no spontaneous shutting down problems whatsoever. of course, my sense of touch is not as accurate as a thermometer but more or less, if you consider all the points i mentioned, most of us can say that the whole issue is just a matter of incorrect cpu reading.
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Yes.....I saw that too. In my opinion, it an error in the description. The Realtek site has all the info on that a3.75 set. On your prior post you asked about install procedure. You're correct. Uninstall the old set using Add/Remove programs in Control Panel and run Setup on the new package to install.
FYI.....I'm on broadband connection and can EMail large files. If that new set fails, I could zip and Email you that old A3.67 set. However, it's over 14MB in size (I checked), so you need an EMail account that can accept that large an attachment. Let me know by Private Message in the Forum with EMail address. I'll be in and out the rest of the day, so I may not get a chance to send until later.
I'm also wondering if MSI has a server with legacy drivers that the moderators could check and provide link. Download would be much easier solution on everyone with this problem.
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Edit: Read this thread and it should make you feel better.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=80424.0
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I already returned my board for a replacement once but the replacement had the same power cycling issues. I am thinking of buying some cheap 1333 CL9 RAM to see if I can manage to get into the UEFI and see if I can tweak something into making my RAM work
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tl;dr
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I am thinking of buying some cheap 1333 CL9 RAM to see if I can manage to get into the UEFI and see if I can tweak something into making my RAM work. I went on to the G.SKILL forum and found an interesting thread about RAM incompatiblities. Could this be causing the constant reboots?
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Alright, the new ram I bought should arrive in a few days (3 or 4).
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