looking for some help here.

I AM SO FRUSTRATED with this board. So I had issues getting the board to post. the board would always only light up the HD_LED next to the pata connector and the BIOS LED. eventually after playing around with the memory location (A2) I was able to post the board and thought "man I should update the bios because of all these querks" .... well I went to 1104 and it posted once... now I cant get the board to do anything but have the HD_LED light up and the bios light on... anything sound similar here? anyone else have this issue? or similar? I did get it to post once more (1104) with no video card and one stick of memory in the last blue slot. any info or would be greatly appreciated please do tell! I also get the same results if i force BIOS #2 (which I didn't update)

I have
Core i7 920
PSU EGX1000EWL
memory OCZ3X1600LV6GK


The little LCD poster just says welcome and then begins counting.