P45 platinum hangs at "decompressing bios immage to ram"

Hi Everybody,
I bought this pc:
Intel Q9450
P45 Platinum
OCZ 4GB (2x2) reaper 1066
WD raptor 37GB sata
WD 650 GB sata
CNPS7700 Fan
MSI NX8600GT Graphic
Now i had since the beginning some start up problems, but i managed to boot eventually, and installed vista X64. So far so good.. Everything runs fin... but, closed down the PC for the night, and started it up this morning, and again, no startup.. leds indicate
red
red
green
gree
Manual says: "Decompressing bios immage to Ram for faster booting"
Tried to use 1 stick of RAM in every slot (1 to 4) but no good. Switched to the other stick, but no good either.. After a few hours, did some Cmos clearing and it started up again... so did some resetting and some work in vista, and installed some aps... and worked fine again...
Did some research here and there, and decided to flash bios from 1.0 tot 1.1 (original from MSI site)... Now for some hours, he keeps giving the same problem: decompressing bios.. and i can't boot or anything.. ripped of every peace of hardware, and tried again from start.. but nothing... cannot enter bios of anything.. keeps hanging on red red green green..
Can any of you please help me....
Deborah..

Quote from: Jack the Newbie on 06-July-08, 22:18:48
Have you cleared CMOS with main A/C power cable removed from PSU after updating the BIOS?
I'm Clearing it again (for the 100 time today ) with, like you said, the power cable out... but no result... also tried it to leave it for a minute of 5 alone, and then do clear Cmos... but again .. no result...
[Edit] Also left out the battery end cleared Cmos... but again.... no result...

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my p45 platinum wont boot to BIOS. It gets stuck at Memory Detection Test. Cold boot gets it sometimes to "Decompressing BIOS image to RAM for fast booting.".
I'm not getting any feed to my screen.
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Quote from: flobelix on 11-October-12, 01:04:27
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more annoying is the fact that it will do the power up / power straight back off thing 2 or more times when switching on before staying on yet is completly stable when it's on, also it seems to have trouble with the time which keeps changing when powered off, bios battery is fine and I've cleared the bios several times including with the battery removed
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