Tenchi50

no it's not posting; or if it is, I can't see it.

and I used the onboard video for every test except for just testing the gpu

scottish_jason

well if its posting you should be able to hear a beep as long as you have an internal speaker connected

but aye if its not posting while ur at the minimum system and you have a known good processor and ram then its likely your motherboard is dead, just send it back

Tenchi50

not sure if this could affect it; but I just realized that q6600s are 64nm while my board is 45nm. If so, big oversight on my part, but I had originally bought this board believing it can take a q6600.

mkultra

Doesnt matter CPU should work fine. Try reseating the CPU, I once bent a pin on an old build and it didnt seat right. I bent it back and it booted. Make sure ram is all the way in lol I once rebuilt a whole system just to find out my ram stick wasnt clicked all the way in.

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Tenchi50

+ rep to you the thermal compound was sticking to the cpu so much that it was lifting it up and sliding it over as i was seating the heatsink. so i just used the socket lever to hold it down.