RAM check is basic POST operation, if the timings are unusable it can lock the system.

I believe that it is fixed

Hello everyone - Thank you very much for your assistance in solving this problem. I stopped into Red Barn Computers (a local computer shop), and mentioned my problem to one of the employees. He informed me that a common cause of this problem is that there is an extra spacer under the mobo which is shorting it out. I knew that that was not exactly what was happening, however I immediately realized the problem.

When I first put my mobo into the case, the holes on the mobo didn't line up perfectly with a couple of the pre-drilled holes in the case. One of these holes, which was in the upper-right corner of it, was so far off that I didn't want to force the MB farther over in order to insert a screw. Therefore, I left the spacer there to support the MB, for when i was inserting cables, etc. So, i believe that sometimes that spacer would short out the MB, as it was straying off to the side a bit.

Thanks again for your assistance.

Heh, figures it'd be something simple

if you can use plastic spacers that might help.