My subject is rather overly dramatic. The experience is a bit frustrating because of my job which leaves me little time and I have to make some progress quick. If not I need to start getting things ready to RMA. I'm just trying to get as many opinions as possible. I'm not going to claim I'm a tech wizard as my Asrock built I mention below humbled me there.
Goal of this system is to run 7 GPUs watercooled. I had this going on an Asrock X87 Fata1ity Killer MB and wanted to take this "thing" out of a milkcrate and into real case of some sort. I wanted a "real case" and not a custom built, open air, aluminum angle iron case. I thought it would take less time LOL. I bought the ASUS MB and several other products to make it work. I was unaware of the compatibility lists but it looks like I did a good job picking.
I chose CPU based on NewEggs mentioning the E5-2600 family. Later I looked at compatibility with the C602 chipset on Intel Ark. Check. Just recently ASUS. Found link for memory compatibility in another thread, Unfortunately I did not see a 1066 DDR3 section but the vendor I purchased RAM from is listed in every other category. ASUS and Newegg both mention 1066 as compatible... interestingly the image on the ASUS site goes to 1333 (http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z9PED8_WS), but on the specification tab it goes to 1066 (http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z9PED8_WS/specifications/)....
It was a Litecoin mining rig but I'm going to convert it to a FAH rig. Eventually using it to test Redis / Erlang game/login/loadbalancing server. (That last part is for if/when I need more than one game server.
) If all goes well I'll drive it over to my ISP.
My problem: Power on... No video, seemingly no POST, case and video fans on high. I have two Corsair H90 All-in-One watercoolers, both running. No Q-code displayed at anytime by the MB.
I had all the fans hooked into a PWM hub during my first few power on attempts. The fans "kicked" and then returned to their original positions.
Initial Setup:
Current Setup:
I also changed VGA enabled to disabled on the last attempt. Tried clearing BIOS, no change. Video hooked into DVI via a DVI-VGA adapter.
Goal for the final setup: similar to my initial above but 5 HIS 7950s (same model), 2 HIS 7970s (same model), +1 Lepa G1200. Got all the stuff... just want to get it working.
Goal of this system is to run 7 GPUs watercooled. I had this going on an Asrock X87 Fata1ity Killer MB and wanted to take this "thing" out of a milkcrate and into real case of some sort. I wanted a "real case" and not a custom built, open air, aluminum angle iron case. I thought it would take less time LOL. I bought the ASUS MB and several other products to make it work. I was unaware of the compatibility lists but it looks like I did a good job picking.
I chose CPU based on NewEggs mentioning the E5-2600 family. Later I looked at compatibility with the C602 chipset on Intel Ark. Check. Just recently ASUS. Found link for memory compatibility in another thread, Unfortunately I did not see a 1066 DDR3 section but the vendor I purchased RAM from is listed in every other category. ASUS and Newegg both mention 1066 as compatible... interestingly the image on the ASUS site goes to 1333 (http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z9PED8_WS), but on the specification tab it goes to 1066 (http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z9PED8_WS/specifications/)....
It was a Litecoin mining rig but I'm going to convert it to a FAH rig. Eventually using it to test Redis / Erlang game/login/loadbalancing server. (That last part is for if/when I need more than one game server.

My problem: Power on... No video, seemingly no POST, case and video fans on high. I have two Corsair H90 All-in-One watercoolers, both running. No Q-code displayed at anytime by the MB.
I had all the fans hooked into a PWM hub during my first few power on attempts. The fans "kicked" and then returned to their original positions.
Initial Setup:
CPU: Xeon E5-2603 v2 x 2
RAM: G. Skill Rip Jaws DDR3-1066 7-7-7-18 Quad Channel 4GB x 8
Cooling:
Corsair H90 All-in-One Watercooling Solution (140mm Setup/CPU)
140mm fans (7) wired into PWM controller, one lead went to fan header on MB
PSU: Lepa G1200W (2 8-pin, 1 24-pin, 2 PCIe 6-pin, 1 4x SATA, 1 2xSATA/2xMolex in use)
Storage:
LG Blu-ray burner SATA ?
WD Blue 250GB SATA II
Muskin Chronos 120GB SATA III SSD x 4
PWM fan controller
Chassis HD Audio header
Chassis USB 3.0
Chassis USB 2.0
Chassis Switches / HDD LED
Current Setup:
CPU: Xeon E5-2603 v2 x 2
RAM: G. Skill Rip Jaws DDR3-1066 7-7-7-18 Quad Channel 4GB x 2
Cooling:vCorsair H90 All-in-One Watercooling Solution (140mm Setup/CPU)
Video: HIS 7950 Boost IceQ
PSU: Lepa G1200W (2 8-pin, 1 24-pin, 2 PCIe 6-pin in use)
Storage:USB Xubuntu 12.04 ISO
Headers Connected on MB: Chassis Switches / HDD LED
KB: USB 2.0
I also changed VGA enabled to disabled on the last attempt. Tried clearing BIOS, no change. Video hooked into DVI via a DVI-VGA adapter.
Goal for the final setup: similar to my initial above but 5 HIS 7950s (same model), 2 HIS 7970s (same model), +1 Lepa G1200. Got all the stuff... just want to get it working.