Please Help K8N Neo4 Platinum won't boot?

Hello,
I could use your expertise in this matter. I have built several systems and never seen this before. My system will not boot with the hard drive
and/or DVD drive attached. It will boot with just the 1.44 floppy attached. My system is as follows:
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum ATX AMD Motherboard
connect3D 3038 Radeon X800GTO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card
Rosewill RV500S-2 500W Power Supply 500W ATX 2.01
+3.3v- 30A
+5V - 45a
+12V1 - 18a
+12V2 - 16a
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Kit System Memory
Cas Latency 2.5
Voltage 2.5V
Unbuffered
Windows XP professtional Service Pack 2
I tried resetting CMOS, changing the cmos battery, re-setting the video card, moving memory modules (from positions 1&2 to 3&4). The power supply is working. When I put my hard drive into another system it boots perfectly. Please help!
Thanks
Tony

All that info and I still don't know where you are plugging them in. SATA or IDE(PATA)? Both?
Can you describe the not booting a little more? i.e. No video at all, you see POST but it doesn't complete, POST completes but you can't boot an OS.

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https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=73850.0

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