Quote: Originally Posted by
galvitron 
Wow...tricky
Well the chances of all those components being bad is very small. Maybe fate has it in for you
That ram chip configuration that it needs could be the issue. You mentioned you tried a few but if it is finicky about chip arrangements, then who knows? Maybe it needs all the chips on one side of the RAM stick (I've seen this before).
It does require double sided memory. All sticks I have tried except the first one are double sided.
Quote: Originally Posted by
galvitron Make sure all USB devices are unplugged. Make sure the all drives are unplugged. Just connect keyboard and screen and power.
No keyboard ports. I have tried to boot it with VGA and power same deal.
Quote: Originally Posted by
galvitron Make sure the system is grounded nicely. You probably already have this covered but it can't hurt to check. Maybe even a special grounding rig for the PSU and MB.
It is in the house now, and as I said, same power supplies power up my other spare mobos just fine.
Quote: Originally Posted by
galvitron On newegg someone mentioned that this MB cannot run CAS 4 RAM properly. Needs CAS latency of 5.
Yeah I read that too. So I ordered the Geil memory from Newegg which is a CAS5 and known to work supposedly...
Quote: Originally Posted by
galvitron Others are saying theirs shipped with a dead BIOS battery...
I havent checked this, but I guess it wouldnt hurt. Although if there is no charge on the battery, it should still boot fine, it just wouldnt save any info when the power goes out... Unless things have changed and I am not aware of it!
Thanks for trying to help though. I did do the normal troubleshooting before my rant I promise!