DFI Lanparty motherboard not booting into xp

[Lips2001Ad]

Hi there, I have recently aquired a dfi lanparty via based athlon mainboard, I have a athlon xp 2000 and a stick of samsung ddr pc3200 ram with a geforce 4 ti 4600 and 40 gig ide hard disk. it installs windows ok but then crashes out if I open a program. once this has happend the machine will not reload windows it freezes at the splash screen for 10 to 15 minitues then the colours on the splash screen become corupted. if i hit reset the post screen comes up but is covered in graphical couruption and freezes. So I then power down the system and try and enter safe mode, it starts to boot but freezes when accessing the file mup.sys again it stays like this for a while before returning to the corupt post screen. I first guessed ram so I tried a stick of crucial 3200 and a stick of generic 3200 but still the same, so then I tried changing the videocard to a gerforce 2 and gerforce 4 mx but still the same. I tried a 1400 duron cpu but still the same, I tried 3 psu - a qtec and 2 generic all rated 300w. I reset the bios settings, I tried 3 different versions of windows xp and tried various different bios settings. but it still dose this, can any one please help as this is a lovely board and would love to get it going !!!!

[NooNoo]

Carefully inspect the motherboard for bulging capacitors...
Change the ide cables
Run memtest86 for at least 7 full tests.

check the cmos features

[Lips2001Ad]

thank you for your sugestion. I did that and all my memory passed !!! I tried striping the computer down to just motherboard, cpu, ram, video card and cdrom + hdd to do a install of windows. it install windows but as soon as windows restared it gave me the garbage windows splash screen and froze.
I was wondering? cud it be a corupt bios?

[Lips2001Ad]

Ok, hang on a second, something dont ad up ? I just checked and I do not have any cmos reloaded options at all!!! All it has is genie bios overclocking menu.
Any ideas?

[NooNoo]

OK, so next step would be to get an updated bios from DFI and flash it.

Other test would be get a pci video card and remove the agp. Ensure the bios settings are set to boot from pci otherwise you will see nothing!