Ha Ha god i remember windows 98 not having native SATA support and there were floppy disks and wire pulling... it was then i learned about hard drive imaging lol

I agree with you_to your preph's might not be responding, because the fact that your system is posting as all is a really good thing alone. When i fire up a new PC i wait for the telegraphs of death from the case spaker :-S

Good luck!

P.S. if all else fails i still stand my cycling through your ram and video cards...not at the same time of course... because then how will you know what fixed it? lol

Continuing wishes of good luck :-)