I recently bought a used water cooled ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe board and it seems to have issues powering on. Once he board recives power for the first time and it turned on the fans Spin up but I don't get any display, after turning it off and back on it resets after a second of power, then the fans spin up with constant power but still nothing on screen, so I began the process of elimination. removing the accessories and clearing CMOS, then the gpu and then trying pairs and individual ram sticks in various sockets as well as other kinds of ram sticks, tested the PSU on similar boards and it works just fine and even reseating the BIOS chip. the only different response i get is when all the sticks are removed giving me the beep code telling me there's no ram installed on the board. I've swapped cpu's and gpu's but with no difference. So I'm pretty stuck as to why I can't get a post out of this board. Currently breadboxed and air cooled for now, I just hope it isn't a dead board that I'm dealing with
Hope to hear something soon!
Specs
MB: ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe WiFi-AP @n
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
RAM: 4x4GB (16GB) Corsair Vengance Pro DDR3 1600 1.5v
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 560
PSU: Ultra LSP 550W v2 Pro
Other hardware used test components
MB: ASUS P5Q Pro, ASUS P5QPL-VM EPU
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400, Intel Core 2 Duo E7400
RAM: Kingston HyperX Blu 2x8GB (16GB)
GPU: Gigabyte GT 440