PC Dead (no power) 3 months old

My 3 month old PC (see sig) shut down on its own and now I get nothing when I press the power switch. I done a lot of searching and reading here. Here's what I've done thus far...
- temps always seemed real good (case 19c, ideal 33c, loaded /w Prime95 55c)
- reset cmos, no change.
- removed MB from the case and removed everything but cpu/fan, 1 stick of memory, and video card. Plugging in 20pin and 4pin, shorting power switch pin heads does nothing. No fans, no sounds, no lights.
- tested PS by shorting green & black wire at the 20pin connector, case fan spins, tested orange, red, yellow with a dvm and get the proper 3.3, 5, 12 volts.
- I don't see any sign of shorting or burning on the MB.
- pulling the cpu & fan shows no burning either.
I'm thinking it must be the MB. Unfortunetly I don't have any replacement components (yet!) to swap things out to test. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions before I start the RMA process? Anyone know if MSI will 'cross-ship' (ie. send out a replacement immediately assuming I give them charge card info)?
Thanks!

I`m in the same boat mate... just got mine running perfectly after a couple of weeks of trying to get it running,, and it worked beautifully for about 24 hours... I shut windows xp down and now she won`t start. I have pretty much the same rig as you, even down to the Zalman except I was using a Enermax Noisetaker 600W... and tried using a Antec True Power 430W like yours and nothing... Also I have a AMD 4000+ cpu... and was using raid... sata and pata...
I`m totally gutted as I spent so long getting it to work... (Hard drive and WinXP problems mainly)
Does anyone know if my other components may have been damaged through any MB problems?

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