Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboard & CPU installation

[Yeauxgurt]

I'm building a new pc and when the cpu (i7 6700k) is not installed the board just cycles power every 3 seconds. When it is installed the pc clicks on/off really fast. I don't think its the power supply though i don't have a tester, i'm not sure about the motherboard. I returned the last one because it was doing the powercycle thing & i didn't have my cpu yet, but I had never heard of a mb doing that. I figured it could get to post at least. But now with the second mb doing the same thing and doing something different when i do have the cpu installed, i'm not sure what to think.
I've got a ticket open w/ Gigabyte, but I have no idea how long that will take. Any help/insight will be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[alexoiu]

Try testing the board outside the case. If still the same, try posting here a picture of the CPU socket, and then we can start from there.

 

[Yeauxgurt]

Didn't make a difference inside/out of case http://imgur.com/a/xvmL8

 

[alexoiu]

I can't tell from the picture. Can you confirm that the pins look straight (no bent pins) and the back of the CPU has no burn spots?

 

[Yeauxgurt]

There are some questionable spots on the cpu & mb. no burn marks or anything though. I added a few more pictures to the original link

 

[alexoiu]

Hard to say. Can you RMA both board and CPU?

 

[Yeauxgurt]

I got the mb from newegg.. so i can rma that.. The cpu .. well i got it on ebay from monoprice.com i've never bought from them before, but i can try. I'm just getting pretty frustrated over all this. This will be my 3rd RMA Motherboard... and the last one i left my brand new Plextor M8Pe M.2 2280 512GB SSD attached to it... which cost $200 and hopefully Newegg will find. I hate to keep delaying this build and the more i touch everything, the more chance it's going to fail too.

 

[alexoiu]

No other idea, unfortunately. A local pc repair shop might help also.