System won't post tried breadboxing

[Adiassy]

I have tried bread boxing and tested everything to the best of my ability. I returned the motherboard and processor and that made no difference. If I remove power to the 8 pin port on the motherboard the system will boot and give me the error telling me there is no processor installed. However when I connect power to the processor (doing this on an old cutting board on my counter-top) I get one dull click then nothing happens. All I have connected is the processor m2 and power. I have tried it with and without the ram and no changes. This is my first build so I am 95% sure I am doing something stupid here and I have walked through all of the steps on the sticky twice but I am dumbfounded.

Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
be quiet! DARK POWER PRO 11 850W 80+ Platinum Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
MyDigitalSSD BPX 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
Asus GeForce GTX 1080 8GB ROG STRIX Video Card
be quiet! Dark Base 900 (Black) ATX Full Tower Case
be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 67.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler
Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive x2

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tgk9pb

 

[alexoiu]

Can you test different CPU cooler? It looks like a short, and it might be a faulty installation of the CPU cooler.

 

[Adiassy]

Can you test different CPU cooler? It looks like a short, and it might be a faulty installation of the CPU cooler.

This is before installing the cooler. As you know this cooler is very bulky and quite heavy.

 

[alexoiu]

The board might not start if CPU cooler not connected to the board.
You can try connecting the CPU cooler to the CPU_Fan on the board, even if not installed, but... I won't recommend starting the board with CPU cooler not seated. The CPU temperature does raise quite fast.

 

[Adiassy]

The board might not start if CPU cooler not connected to the board.
You can try connecting the CPU cooler to the CPU_Fan on the board, even if not installed, but... I won't recommend starting the board with CPU cooler not seated. The CPU temperature does raise quite fast.

Tried it with the CPU cooler connected to the CPU_Fan on the board, still not starting.

 

[alexoiu]

Can you post a picture of the board?

 

[maz89]

I would suggest you install the CPU cooler during troubleshooting.

Can you recheck that all PSU cables are securely connected from both ends? Try a different PSU cable for the external socket.

Is the monitor mode correctly set to HDMI/DP?

As a last resort, test with another power supply.