New Build Won't Boot

[rikky]

Hi, I just built a new rig with a B-Grade Asus P5B-E Plus motherboard from here, everything connected up fine and powered up, I eagerly connected a monitor and started the beast up, only to find that no matter what connection (dvi, vga) I used the machine would not boot, no beeps nothing although everything was spinning and running as it should. I gave the machine to my brother to test and he swapped processors around from his machine, but found the exact same problem persisted. Now on swapping his processor back to his own pc he finds that it has the same problem as mine, will not boot with no beeps nothing on the screen.

So I am guessing either it is this motherboard that has fried two cpus or the cpu that has fried two motherboards, I have removed the battery from both motherboards and reset the jumpers but to no avail.
So now I have two machines that will not boot, does anybody have any suggestions as to what I can try next??

new rig details below
Asus P5B-E Plus
Core 2 Duo E4300 with Coolermaster Hyper TX Heatsink
2 gb Crucial Ballistix PC6400
500gb Samsung Spinpoint Sata H/D
600w OCZ PSU
8600GT Graphics Card

any ideas please, as I am very wary of trying to test anything else in case they are rendered useless??

thanks
rikky.

 

[Makhaira]

It's more likely that the board is a chip killer than vice versa. You need to take them either to a shop, or to someone willing to risk their hardware, and try a single chip in a working board, confirm it's working, then try it in your board, then swap it back to the original (working) test board. That will give you all the info you need to point the finger.

 

[rikky]

Ok thanks for that, but as I say I have already put my brothers chip (from his long working pc) into the new build containing the Asus P5B-E Plus motherboard and the result is I have seemingly two chips not working - don't want to even attempt putting a third chip in this motherboard.
Warranty with this board is only 14 days with OCUK so will need to try and see if Asus will replace it as I believe the rest of the warranty is with them. Does anybody know if that is correct??
thanks
rik.