What's going on with the motherboard?

[thomson65]

Hey guys, I recently bought a motherboard off my friend, and i used it to build my first PC. Things went fine, everything got power, but the BIOS and everything took a while to post. Also, none of the USB ports worked whatsoever, nor the front, or the back IO. I tried taking out the battery and putting it back in to reset the BIOS settings to see if the person i bought it from pulled a fast one and disabled USB. Also, it says that "no usable drives were found" even though my SSD (w/o windows) was plugged in. I tried having less things plugged in, only thing i had plugged in to the mobo was the ssd, keyboard, and cpu. tried using dedicated graphics, didn't post whatsoever, then tried using my gtx 770, and that's about how far i got. I hope this wasn't too long, thanks for the help.

 

[fredfinks]

assuming the mobo is ok, it could be faulty RAM. unplug everything, including SSD. so only PSU, mobo, cpu, ram and keyboard & monitor on onboard video.
reset CMOS or reset BIOS to default.

If you have 2 sticks of RAM try one at a time.