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Originally Posted by miggs78

Motherboard won't POST.

After I got all my water cooling stuff installed, leak tested, I decided to finally connect all the necessary psu cables. Turned it on, no post. Powered it down, and removed both sticks of RAM, booted with the usual no RAM beeps, then put 1 stick of RAM, no POST. Took out video card to see if it gives the beeps of no video card, it won't.

I tried one more time booting with no RAM, no luck. I took out BIOS battery and reset CMOS, powered no POST.

This was a board that came back from an RMA, the previous one the RAM slots seemed to have died, so I got another board. Its an Asus p5n32 e-sli 680i, as you know 680i boards have this issue of just giving up on things whenever it feels like, I thought it was the memory sticks, tried a different set still no POST. Unfortunately I don't have another LGA775 board to test the RAM.

One question, does the motherboard even turn on if there is no processor (or a bad processor). Well I was going to buy another board but few weeks later, I'll try all your suggestions before buying a new one. Thanks.

NO processor = no life.

680i bad garbage.