Z68MA-G45 (B3) Boot cycle

So i bought a brand new config and it seems my motherboard is broken (it works for 4 seconds then stops for 10 and cycles that way forever)
My config:
MSI Z68MA-G45 (B3) Motherboard
PNY Nvidia GTX 560 Ti GPU
Intel Core i5 2450P CPU
Akasa venom power 750W PSU
G-Skill Ripjaws 2*4Gb 12800 RAM
Advance Kappa Box
No OS (MB never worked)
Razer mouse and keyboard (probably irrelevant)
I tried almost everything, did a CMOS reset, tried with only one stick of RAM, re-mount everything again just in case, nothing worked, it's always stuck in a boot loop so i'm in desperate need of a solution here.
I looked a bit on the forums here and on the internet but didn't found anything useful so far.
Thank you for any help you will provide,
Elril

The vendor is not going to know what BIOS is on the MB without opening the box and looking at the BIOS chip himself, that's not something that's normally done. The CPU is supported with the proper BIOS so under normal circumstances he wouldn't know about the BIOS one way or the other, all he's going to do is pull the box off a shelf and sell it. The MBs don't all have the same BIOS anyway as the later they come from the factory the later BIOS will be on it.
You can do as HU16E said or buy a Celeron G440 (about $40-$45 USD) and use it to run the system to flash the BIOS yourself.
You can download the BIOS from the same place as in the CPU support link in Ron's reply.
>> Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher <<

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Quote from: dude on 17-November-13, 06:36:40
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