No boot... no food

I have just finished to setup my new motherboard (msi 875 Neo)..  X( Pc is not boot .. the reason says keyboard controller...
My PC {
2.6 Intel 800
2x 256 ddr pc2100 (samsung)
msi 5600 vtdr 128 mb
Is there anybody out there?
plz! reply me...

I'm pretty sure that with a 800Mhz FSB you need DDR333 at least.
If you have any way of getting some faster RAM to test with you should try it.

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