This is what i did. Was notifited it wont turn on. Humm ok checked all power. Alright from there i took each piece of hardware out till there was nothing. And the same thing. Only the leds on the mobo would turn on. No fans, no error codes ( the EVGA 680I has a 2 digit hex code located at the bottom to tell you any errors. But nothing. Ok fine, power supply. Simple enough. Ordered another one, alittle bigger than the one i had, redid the board making sure its not grounded and all cables ect plugged in. And damn same thing....Alright, went through the whole order process again take each ram stick out individually, then moving them to the other 2 dimm slots, taking the video card, cpu,sound card and still nothing. I then ordered another mobo, same version, plugged it all in, EXACT same thing. Hummm returned that mobo since the odds in 2 mobos doing the exact same error is so slim it has to be something else. Ive tried everything nothing turns on besides the 2 mobo led lights and the power lights on the front of the computer so i know its not the switch, and besides there is a manual button for on/off and reset on the board tried those. Cleared cmos, disconnected HD's still nothing. booted the computer with mobo+cpu nothing, and just mobo, nothing. Always thought the mobo put the computer through post but apparantly according to another forum poster on a diff forum some cpus interact to trigger the post test. Alright so last thing that hasnt done anything is the cpu, so thats where i am. Ive done computers my whole life, and its stumped me bad. And now im here.
Long to short, nothing i do will get the computer to post. Ive gotten a new psu, tried diff mobos, traded hardware one at a time, differnt slots, and altogether out, never once have i recieved and error code, or and fans coming on.
Im not a big overclocker but i do like it to be an option. hell i had me E6700 @ 3.14 ghz or something like that, mind you its been a while and that wasnt a full blast just a good ass jump. and it was running about the same as stock cooling at stock settings with my aftermarket cooling.