PC Problems! Reward within

Yani

Yani

Yani

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Hello

Got my new build yesterday and had a few issues with it not booting. After realising I had not plugged in the 8 pin, I tried to boot it up again this morning.

Specs:
Board: Asus P658XD-E
Card: GTX 480
Processor: I7 950
Ram: Corsair Dominator 1600mhz

Now, when turned on, the DRM LED comes on, and the system refuses to boot. I have tried to reset the CMOS to no avail. When the computer first starts up, theres a millsecond of a very high pithced noise, and when I go to hold down the DRAM button, the computer instantly resets, but the button does NOT begin flashing like it says it should to configure the ram. If I continually hold down the button through the reset, I get a constant high pithced whine until I let go. I have tried holding it down for several minutes but it does not do anything at all.

I have also tried running it with one stick of ram in the various sockets, still to no avail. I am also getting no "beeps" from the board. I have a little pizo speaker plugged in on the pins, but it doesn't seem to do anything, and the part on the board labeled speaker has nothing soldered to it.

Unfortunately I'm getting extremely frustrated with this, and I can't get the thing to boot up and trouble shoot. I believe I have a Bad Company 2 PC key laying around and would be happy to use that as a reward if it helps me get this thing working, or some alternative reward.

Thanks!
 
Also my keyboard does not light up, and with the fact there is no beep makes me think this is a posting issue. Unfortunately I don't have another board to try it out on, so any other suggestions to confirm/deny this would be great.
 
Home built. Rebuilt the entire PC twice. No spare ram to try, but tried every stick of ram in every socket on their own and in various configurations.

Currently conclusions point to an issue with the mobo, just read a lot of posts regarding the issue. Anyone have any idea what the high pitched whine is? Could it be the PSU overloading when the button is pressed?
 
All fans spin up including the fans on the gfx card. I'm using an 850W XFX PSU Black edition.

RAM code is CMP6GX3M3A1600C8.
 
I've tried running the board with no RAM, no gfx card, nothing but the processor board and PSU connected. No beeps, no nothing. Mobo is shot >.<
 
Checked for bent pins. I'm ruthless about not dropping anything and only ever held the edges of the board. It is a new PSU and it powers my old system.

Mobo stand offs in correct place. Using a NZXT Phantom which is labeled where to put them for my board, double checked anyway and no issues there. Will dig out a multi-metre now.

Cheers
 
Entire inside of the case is painted, and the stand offs were anodized. I'll try building it outside the case later on to rule this out, but I'm fairly certain it's an issue with the board! Cheers for the help however.
 
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