MSI PT880 NEO motherboard failing to start with XP Pro

I built a system using an MSI PT880 NEO motherboard. Other details:
System details:
MSI PT880 Motherboard - VIA 880 Chipset
Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz
1 GB RAM (2x512) PC 3200
ATI Radeon 9250 AGP card
USB/1394 PCI card
Two 250GB PATA hard disks (one is UDMA 133 and the other is 100) running in
master/slave configuration.

AMIBIOS A7043 VMS, ver 1.6 092404

I set XP Pro (using the XP Pro 2002 setup CD). XP Pro set up fine. Following
the install, I ran the CD that came with the motherboard, and installed the
VIA motherboard chipset driver. The system rebooted and when it came back
up, the Windows spalshscreen did not appear and all the only thing I could
see is a cursor at the top leftmost corner of the screen. Any ideas?