rampage 2 gene won't post

[GMoney42392]

a few days ago, i pulled the trigger on a new sff build from newegg, consisting of a core i7-930, xfx-branded radeon hd 5870, 6gb of ocz gold ddr3 1600 ram and, of course, an asus rampage 2 gene motherboard. because of work, i had to wait until today to build it, and lo and behold, nothing shows up on the monitor when i turned it on. everything clearly powers up (as confirmed by removing the lid of the case and seeing the gpu and cpu fans spin up) and i've tried resetting the cmos with the switch on the back i/o panel, re-seating the ram in both sets of sockets, and using the lcd poster (all that happened was the timer counted up, which i'm assuming means it's not posting). anything else i should try before rma-ing it?

 

[sirmonkey1985]

try just running 1 stick of ram.. also if you have an older card laying around throw that in, instead of the 5870 and see what happens.. try trouble shooting all the other hardware first before rma'ing the board to find out that its not actually the problem..

 

[JCNiest5]

Here's something else to try also. Remove the motherboard from the case, set it on a flat surface, preferably wood or cardboard, put everything together and see if it POSTs. Did you remember to plug in the 8-pin 12V connector? May I ask why did you pick the II Gene instead of the III Gene?

 

[GMoney42392]

Here's something else to try also. Remove the motherboard from the case, set it on a flat surface, preferably wood or cardboard, put everything together and see if it POSTs. Did you remember to plug in the 8-pin 12V connector? May I ask why did you pick the II Gene instead of the III Gene?

yeah, i did that the other day. the board is confirmed dead and already in the mail for replacement. also, i picked the 2 gene because i didn't see any reason to spend the extra $40 on features i most likely will never use, like quad sli.