Neo 2 Platinum won't boot

MY neo 2 platinum with 3200+ is not even a month old. 3 days ago, during normal operation (just on msn and internet) i got about 5 "delayed right errors" all to my boot partition. these caused my computer to hang until it recover (?). i was frustrated so i tried to shut it down via the start menu. i came back probably 15 minutes later and the monitor still displayed "logging off windows" so just shut it off with the power button. The next morning, i fired er up. It went through POST fine, showed the Boot from CD: thing, then the screen went black, no boot at all. i poked around a bit with the power off and noticed my hard drive cables were a little loose. My raidmax power supply was being weird lately anyway, with only one of the 12V chains working correctly, so i replaced it right away with an Okia 550W. This changed nothing. In BIOS, i can see both of my harddrives, POST shows 1024 RAM. MY D-Bracket display "Testing RTC (Real Time Clock)" every time. Any help would be greatly appreciated, i have notyet tried clearing the CMOS, but will if you recommend it. From all the research i've done this seems fairly common among MSI boards. is RMA necessary?

When you stated you had delayed write errors to the boot partition, it could have been a virus, or, most likely, since the HD connectors were loose, it gradually became so loose, that improper pin contact may have caused it.
Heating and cooling causes expansion/contraction, and something loose can work it's way completely disconnected during the on/off cycles over time. It happens with RAM and VGA cards too. I have seen one instance where it actually damaged the hard drive beyond repair.
You have several options for a repair method, however, just running the repair method will not fix the master boot record. You have to use the Rcovery Console with the command prompt and use the "fixmbr" command to fix the master boot record. In most cases this will work but you may have to reload the OS from scratch. Since I always back up my data, I find it easier just to delete the partition, recreate the partition and reload the OS again on my own systems.
On a clients PC I run the fixmbr and then run a repair (if necessary), if I cannot boot, I attempt data recovery, then reload the OS as described above.
Here is a description of the Windows recovery console for reference http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314058
Here is your likely situation Computer stops responding with a black screen when you start Windows XP
It may be more than just the MBR since there is no telling exactly what caused it since there are two situations explained by the user.
1. It happened while surfing (could be virus related)
2. It was noted that the hard drive cables were loose
Here is a graphical guide also Recovering Windows XP using the Recovery Console
All the links were found using Google (Google is your friend)

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