P55-GD65 won't POST with SLI

Hi, I seem to have quite a strange problem - I have 2 nV 8800GTS 512MB cards, both work perfectly when "single", but as soon as I put them both in the PC won't start up - no signal to the display, no sign of booting. Interesting things are that the CPU phase LEDs are acting weird - after a few seconds, first 4 of them shut down and only LED #5 and 6 keep illuminated, sometimes after another few seconds the first 4 start flashing quite rapidly. Another thing is that one of the cards (always the one in the "lower" slot) keeps in the "startup" mode, with the fan on maximum RPM, the upper card quits it normally after a few seconds.
I suspected the PSU since it is rated only 650W, but both 12V rails are capable of powering each of the cards in 3D Mark, so I don't think it would be a problem for it to power them on startup.
Any ideas what may be the problem? Or at least a hint to narrow it down, since I now suspect both graphic cards, the PSU and the mainboard of being faulty and have no idea which to eventually replace.

Just did a bit of testing, the flashing LEDs thing turned out to be associated with Intel SpeedStep - apparently, as it lowers the multiplier, it also lowers the voltage down to approx. 0.95V and the LEDs go haywire. When I tried the SLI configuration with SpeedStep off, the LEDs remained lit and voltage readout on the multimeter was stable.
I also tried "stressing" the 12V rail by running both the GPU and the HDDs on it while running World In Conflict benchmark (don't really have anything better here at the moment) and it didn't seem to have any problems.
Just to clarify, according to the sticker on the PSU there are 4 12V rails, each 15A, one to CPU (4-pin connector), one to GPU (6 pin), one for IDE+SATA(+2nd GPU with an adapter) and one for I don't know what, with a 4-pin connector similar to the CPU one, only all 4 "slots" are perfectly square, no beveled corners as on the CPU one.
Anyway, I'll try to get someone to lend me some better PSU, but I doubt I would be successful, so if anyone has any more ideas on how to test it it will be greatly appreciated

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My system has been working fine for over a year now, and all of a sudden it has stopped working. It will not post, and beep error code I get is one long beep, and two short beeps.
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https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=131546.0
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A0 is IDE Detect if its stopping there your drive mode sounds like its not set correctly as its not seeing your OS drive if its hanging! and AD is Ready to Boot Event (loading OS) this is either a OS from a different chipset or a bad drive mode or both happening!
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