System locks up when setting up windows 2000

I've had a few problems setting up my computer bit its finally booting. The trouble now is that when I restart for windows to open for the first time the system just freezes up. I've tried a diferent memory chip, different hard drive, different power supply, different windows 2000 Pro disk (even attempted setting up windows XP Pro) and a different AGP. I'm beggining to think the board is a dud. Can anyone throw any light on this. Can't get the computer running to attempt flashing the bios or anything.

ah, no biggie. if you havent tried this already, i would try installing windows and booting with as much of a minimal set of periferals as possible. just the cd, hd, mobo, ram, and vid card. see if you can get through the install. then add all your periferals in one at a time. cards, floppises, extra drives, etc...
you can run memtest even if you cant boot to windows. download the program and it will be a cd image. burn the image to disk. the cd will be bootable. change your boot order to cd 1st, then you will have the option to run the ram test.
you can also flash the bios by downloading it from another computer with the link that Wonkanoby posted. just be careful and make sure that the bios is the correct one for your mobo model. i dont know how to back up the current bios, maybe someone here does...
if you want to flash bios, use ramdisk or hd, not floppy. if you are ntfs, heres how to do it using ramdisk:
1) DL or create a win98 bootdisk.
you can get one at: http://www.putergeek.com/downloads/
2) Create the win98 boot disk.
3) Put the image and flash executable on another floppy.
4) Reboot the computer and boot from the win98 floppy.
5) On boot, the win98 bootdisk will create a ramdisk as drive c:
6) In dos, type c:
7) At the c: prompt, type mkdir bios
8) change directory to bios by typing cd bios
9) put the floppy with bios in drive.
10) type copy a:\*.* c:\bios
11) run the bios flash from the ramdrive
again, be careful and good luck!

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[edit4] I finished scrubbing and copied my "journalctl -b" output to pastebin. I can't see any thing that might raise any flags. http://pastebin.com/WXpbpTuc
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