MOBO won't boot up, possible DOA?

[Joshua Merrill]

I recently purchased a new rig set-up and finally got everything in today. As always, I'm careful about my static charge, constantly de-charging myself (if that's what it's called), and holding things on the edges, and not on the top or bottom.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK
Processor: Intel Core i7-4790k
Memory: 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) Corsair Vengeance Pro
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO (250 GB)
HHD: Seagate 2 TB
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G1
Graphics: MSI GTX 970

Upon building my set-up and going to boot up for the first time, it failed and nothing happened.

I tried using a screw driver to connect the + and - power switch, switching PSU's, taking out the Graphics card, I double and triple checked all of my wires and made sure that my CPU was mounted properly.

I don't know what else to do. Am I right to assume that I might have a DOA and should contact Newegg and/or Gigabyte about getting a replacement?

Thanks everyone in advance.

 

[Tradesman1]

May want to bench it, have a guide that may help here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1753671/bench-troubleshooting.html

 

[Joshua Merrill]

May want to bench it, have a guide that may help here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1753671/bench-troubleshooting.html

Went through and dismantled the board down to bare-bones. Did an external set-up, as I did before putting it in the case, and nothing happened. No noise, no lights, nothing.

Any other ideas or suggestions? Good article though.

 

[Jon-Doe]

May want to bench it, have a guide that may help here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1753671/bench-troubleshooting.html

Went through and dismantled the board down to bare-bones. Did an external set-up, as I did before putting it in the case, and nothing happened. No noise, no lights, nothing.

Any other ideas or suggestions? Good article though.

Try a different outlet...
Are you sure your PSU is powering on?

 

[Joshua Merrill]

May want to bench it, have a guide that may help here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1753671/bench-troubleshooting.html

Went through and dismantled the board down to bare-bones. Did an external set-up, as I did before putting it in the case, and nothing happened. No noise, no lights, nothing.

Any other ideas or suggestions? Good article though.

Try a different outlet...
Are you sure your PSU is powering on?

I have already tried a different outlet.
As for the PSU, I stuck the PSU in my current rig and everything booted up beautifully.

I also attempted to put my old PSU (500w) in the bare-boned MOBO, but it did nothing (which I don't even know if it can supply that kind of needed power.)

 

[Jon-Doe]

May want to bench it, have a guide that may help here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1753671/bench-troubleshooting.html

Went through and dismantled the board down to bare-bones. Did an external set-up, as I did before putting it in the case, and nothing happened. No noise, no lights, nothing.

Any other ideas or suggestions? Good article though.

Try using one ram you know is good and see if it boots.

Try a different outlet...
Are you sure your PSU is powering on?

I have already tried a different outlet.
As for the PSU, I stuck the PSU in my current rig and everything booted up beautifully.

I also attempted to put my old PSU (500w) in the bare-boned MOBO, but it did nothing (which I don't even know if it can supply that kind of needed power.)

Try using one stick of RAM you know is good and see if it boots.

Update- I guess that was part of the bench. My bad.

 

[Joshua Merrill]

Try using one stick of RAM you know is good and see if it boots.

Tried booting it with no RAM, one stick of RAM, two sticks of RAM, all from my current PC Rig.

 

[Jon-Doe]

Try using one stick of RAM you know is good and see if it boots.

Tried booting it with no RAM, one stick of RAM, two sticks of RAM, all from my current PC Rig.

Without being there I'd have to say-
Bad mobo or cpu. Can replace cpu to see which one it is so you don't have to RMA both but Newegg has a 30 day return so you should be good with them.

Just a bummer.

 

[Joshua Merrill]

Try using one stick of RAM you know is good and see if it boots.

Tried booting it with no RAM, one stick of RAM, two sticks of RAM, all from my current PC Rig.

Without being there I'd have to say-
Bad mobo or cpu. Can replace cpu to see which one it is so you don't have to RMA both but Newegg has a 30 day return so you should be good with them.

Just a bummer.

That is what I assumed. I have been troubleshooting for the past 2 hours and decided to jump on here and see what everyone else thought. I'm going to be contacting Newegg and/or Gigabyte tomorrow for possible answers and/or returns.