P35 Platinum ... Initializing Floppy Drive Controller ?? (Wont Boot)

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I have built a new comp for someone who wants reliability so i choose to go Platinum, but ... i cant make it boot.
It wont even show ANYTHING on the screen (tried the vga in both Pci-e 16x just in case i was dumb enough lol) the boot "procces" stops with the Status leds showing:
4) Green
3) Green
2) RED
1) Green
According to the user guide it says:
Initializing Floppy Drive Controller.
This will initialize floppy drive and controller.
And i dont even have a floppy
Well as the problem persisted i removed EVERYTHING from the motherboard
now i left:
-Mother
-Processor
-Memory
-VGA
-PSU
And thats it. Let me tell you all the things i tried:
-Bios reset (with the little red button)
-Plug only necesary things
-Taking off the battery and replacing it (and went back to the "original")
-Tried different connectors just in case it was the PSU (i really dont think so)
-Tried different memory stick/s.
And well, thats all i think, half of this i did it with the mother in the case, and re-did all the list with the moter OUTSIDE the case. Can anybody help me ??
I guess is a BIOS problem, as i readed in another post (yeah used search first xD) but the only guy who could solve the problem was flashing the bios, but i cant even see a word on the screen, is it possible to flash the bios in my condition ??
The specs now:
Intel C2D E4500
MSI P35 PLATINUM
2x1Gb (or 1x1gb, tried single sticks as well) OCZ DDR2 667mhz (and tried also with generic "titan" memory at 800mhz, does not change anything)
Gigabyte 8400GS
POWERCOOLER PS-500 SS PSU
AFAIK i have more than enough to make this boot, but well ... you know
Thanks in advance, i tried to give all details possible, in 2 days ill go to RMA if i cant make it work, but i would like give it a try, who knows
EDIT: my english sucks really bad, forgive me !!
EDIT2: Forgot to add !! when i remove the VGA the motherboard DOES the "VGA ERROR BEEP" and the leds are in the correct combination for VGA ERROR ... so i guess processor works and ram too (both OCZ and generic), if one of these fails then it wont make any sound, m i wrong ??

ITS ALIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, to be honest, i dont know what it really was but tried 2 things:
First i followed step by step and word by word the "clearing CMOS" guide (this mobo has a button and not a juper, so i pressed the button like 2 minutes to be REALLY sure xD), then i realized that it was not doing the "beeps" anymore, but the screen was black like before.
SOOOOOOOOOOOO THEEEEEEEEN ... (shoot me in the head for this) i unplugged the video and keyboard from the KVM switch (could THIS be the problem ?? i used it wit hundreds of computers and never gave me prblems before ??? ??? ???) and plugged the cables directly and now its alive !!!
THANKS !! :D :D :D :D :D
One last thing !!
Do you recommend me to upgrade the BIOS ?? the board always did a "false boot" then starts normally, i readed it was some "hardware checking" feature, its that true or its totally useless ??
THANKKKKKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSS =) (im so damn happy now LOL)

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