PC stuck in boot loop

[MrMarvelous]

Apologies in advance for any typos, using my phone for this.

I've just received an MSi X79A-GD45 Plus to go with the Xeon E5-1650/3930K, put it all together and now it's stuck in a reset loop even before the BIOS screen.

I've tried all the usual stuff like removing RAM and booting with the bare essentials, trying all the cables again, clearing/resetting CMOS, flicking the BIOS switch on the motherboard and I don't know what else to try. Any help would be appreciated as I've been at it over the last 4 hours and it's still just resetting itself.

 

[ED209]

Have you checked to see if the bios needs updating to work with the CPU or was both bought together as a bundle and known to be working?

also might be worth checking the cpu cooler is not done up too tight

 

[MrMarvelous]

Got to the bottom of it now. It was one of the pins on the motherboard which was bent, used a pin and straightened it and seems fine now. Now just to overclock it but I have no idea how.