Neo2 that won't - Help Appreciated

I've got a NEO2 Platinum with AMD 3500+ in an Antec Sonata (380W) case. Machine has been working fine for the past 4+ months. All of a sudden it won't boot past the inital post screen. I've cleared the cmos and removed any extra components and it still hangs with the D-Bracket signaling that it's at the Init Floppy Drive Controller (#2 Red, all other Green). The memory shows good, CPU seems OK per the displayed bios screen. With the only problem indicator being "Bad CMOS checksum - Defaults loaded". It says to hit F1 to continue or Del to enter setup.
This is a brand new system as of 12/2004.
The system has a single WD 80 gid hard drive, 1 gig of corsair XMS ddr400, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, Plextor 716A burner. System has been run at nominal setting (no over-clock).
I'm at a loss here. What should my next step be?
Thanks,
Brian

Finally got a second to sit down and play with the system... and managed to get her working again. Looks like the USB keyboard was part of the issue. I luckily had an old PS2 keyboard in the closet and I plugged it in after clearing the CMOS by removing the battery. After reboot, it hung in the same place, however, with the PS2 keyboard, I could hit the DEL key and the system jumped into the bios.
I reset the bios to fail-safe and rebooted. This time the system booted up normally. I did a quick check of the system and then re-booted and updated the bios setting to something more appropriate. Still pretty tame settings though. A second reboot and the system came up fine. I then plugged the USB keyboard back in and XP installed it.
The final reboot - pulled the PS2 keyboard out and everything is back up and running. Don't know why things got hosed... maybe it was all the DOOM 3 that I played the night before.
Anyway... thanks for the thoughts and support. Always helps to have a sounding board and folks that have some good experience to share.
Regards,
Brian

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