MSI P6N Diamond Pentium 4 ATX NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI P6N Diamond

I was in the middle of upgrading my pc and i purchased this motherboard. (shipping was punctual) When i received it i put everything together but nothing would happen the computer would freeze up at the motherboard logo screen, there were no bios beeps. I took my computer into a pc tech expert to take a look at it to figure out what was wrong and after about a month of taking the pc apart and testing he came to a conclusion that the motherboard was no good. I had bought a new case, powersupply, processor, ram, and graphics card. all of those seem to check out okay but there was something wrong with the motherboard.
The motherboard was clean and new looking. All cables were present and the layout map of the motherboard was great to have. The instruction booklet looked like it was from the early '80s because of its condition and print. I didnt get a backplate for where the dvi and usb plugs are, so that would be completely open to dust. The warranty has expired already so i cant return it. I had no chance of knowing that the motherboard was going to be the problem otherwise i would have sent it back in immediately.