No Video from new K9 SLI MOBO

Question

I am building a new computer with following setup:
MSI K9 SLI Plat MS-7250 ver 1.2 MOBO
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition (Brisbane) 2.6Ghz CPU
Corsair Twin2x2048-6400C4 2-1Gb stix (4-4-4-12) Memory
EBGA 256Mb Geforce 8600 GTS SLI PCIx16 GPU (one only)
Antec TruePower Trio 650w PS
Upon boot with all drives disconnected I get no video.  Have tried GPU in both X16 slots with same results.  The D-Bracket testing lights hang at 1-red, 2-green, 3-red and 4-green.  I do not have another PCIx MOBO or another PCIx GPU with which to eliminate the card or the MOBO.  Anybody got any ideas as to how I might narrow the problem to one or the other?  

Answer 1

I guess there's no one to blame for it completely, but it's a real hassle. It's no big deal to ask the reseller to update the BIOS, if they are someone from MSI or knowledgeable of MSI products, but no. Just after hearin my problem, they told me this board is not compatible with my BE, that certainly ruin MSI sales haha, eventually they checked and found out it should work after updating the BIOS. They finally call me and told me that it's been updated, waiting for me to pick it up, and it's been 3 weeks with this problem, we'll see what happen when i pick it up.
And the MSI online help doesn't actually help much, i thought i would get really good info there, but so far this forum helps more. By givin them the serial number to my board i assume they would know the age of this board and thus know i need to update the BIOS, also asked them about the multiplier adjuster which was found on older model of K9N SLI PLA (1.0) and not on the newer one (1.2), they don't even know that. Probably didn't even know the existence of the 1B1 BIOS. Another misinformation, when i'm interested in this board i was readin reviews and all of them are base on the old version 1.0, even MSI site shows older model. I'm sure the multiplier adjuster is on the latest 1.2 model since it's on the older model 1.0, but it doesn't, that's really puzzlin', why would they not include that.
In the end it's best to get help in the forum here good work everyone. I hope they will release BIOS 1.11 soon, not really tempted to install anythin BETA on BIOS. :x OC will have to put on hold