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Btw, could not having ECC memory casue this issue?

I ended up getting anther CPU (Xeon E5-1603) It's on the official HP CPU support list for this motherboard and I have the same issue.. The PC turns on the LED is blue so everything is working fine. After about 30 seconds the CPU fan ramps up to a higher rpm, but I get no display output, no...

But if it was not supported would it boot up and not give any error codes?

No, I have a Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2696 v2. Eventhough it's not listed I read online that the it works just fine (it's a v2 and still needs a LGA2011 and not LGA2011-V3 socket). It's not listed becuase it came out in 2013.

Yes I powered the board using both the 18 and 8 pin connectors, and no the board was not listed a "for parts". I have an evga 750 watt psu with an adapter for getting the 24 pin to an 18 pin, I tested it on other systems and it works just fine. Cpu socket looks good! Thanks for trying though!

I just got a used Z420 motherboard and tried to power it up, it turns on and the status light is blue which per HP means that every is ok and there are no errors, but for some reason not matter how many GPUs or ports I try (DP, HDMI, VGA, DVI) it doesn't display anything. I cleared the the CMOS...