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Okay. Quite the sticky situation here.
Heres my hardware.
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
WD 250GB Caviar Hard drive with Win XP on it
WD 500GB Caviar Hard drive for misc storage
2x EVGA 7800GT's
Sony CD rom Drive
Pioneer DVD burner
APG 1100W Power Supply (New)

Again, I'm running Windows XP Home

I just recently preformed the routine of formating my maind 250GB hard drive and then reinstalling windows. The operation was smooth with no bumps. I then installed the new nvidia drivers and noticed that the full screen logo for my bios during a restart came up as the picture below
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/4255/cimg0678ga0.jpg
I then proceeded to flash my BIOS to a new version. I used the in-windows tool that asus provides to flash the BIOS from a downloaded file and then restarts.
When I restarted my compter it progressed through the next three images.
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/4255/cimg0678ga0.jpg
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3519/cimg0685eb1.jpg
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/779/cimg0677vl6.jpg

At that point I can press control+alt+del to restart but it still does the same thing. I tried pressing del, the key I normally press to enter bios but nothing happens. When I start up my computer it beeps once like it normally does and then when it comes to the last screen it produces 2 short beeps. The motherboard I have I think runs on a AMI BIOS. I read on a site that if you hear 2 beeps it means theres a "Parity circuit failure"
BIOS Beeps http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm
POST Trouble Shooting http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000607.htm

Okay, here's what I've tired so far.
My BIOS is still on the boot from a CD setting. So, I tried putting in my Windows XP Home CD but the same thing still happened.
I switched the video cards and then booted because I thought maybe it would do something. Same results.
I booted using just one video card. Same results.
I then took out the battery on the motherboard and left it out for a good 4-5 minutes. I thin followed the instructions in the motherboard manual and moved the jumper on the pins next to the battery to a different setting for a few minutes. I then replaced the jumper in the original position. The same results occurred when trying to boot.

Do you guys have any recommendations?
Should I try following the steps in POST Trouble Shooting site?
I can do all of those steps besides removing my CPU. I don't have any thermal grease on me and my CPU is attached to my heat sink via a thermal pad which is a bitch to get off I hear. Oh yeah, to top it all off. My new EVGA 9800 GX2 comes in tomorrow. But now, my comp won't be working
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.