Chuck then pull the ram out of the board and also remove the bio battery as yrag has asked you to do. Besure to connect to the onboard graphics at the place I showed you. Unplug the power - take out the nvidia graphics card [pci] - remove the ram from the machine - do as yrag has asked to clear the bio by removing the bio battery.

If someone has messed with trying to set the bio settings wrong - the video settings are set wrong to use any graphics at all.

Remove that battery while you are not connected to power. Let it sit there for a while - press the power button a few times or that is hold down the power button for a while without it being connected to any power or having a bio battery.

Be sure you connect the monitor to the on board graphics. Put the bio battery back in again and start the machine with no memory and no pci graphics card. If it fails to post a bio setup on start - then that board I feel is toast.

If it is the board - forget about trying to use the cpu in another board. Get another one... You are just asking for more problems using what you have little history on or know what has happened to it.

But I think it may just be the bio needs to be cleared. If it post a bio finally do a reset to the preset optimal or just preset values defined in the exit page. It could be possible that someone else has tried to set the pci switch for that nvidia card and could not figure how to get back in to change it back when the card failed to work. As also the onboard would allow them to get back to the graphics either. Thus no graphics anywhere to see what is going on.

Like I said with all that hardware removed and you reset the bio by powering it down completely by removing the battery as such. The machine should post bio settings at startup with the onboard graphics connected to the monitor. If it does not - it is the board and it is not worth messing with.

Good luck...

Do this for use too...

Take picture of the connections for power or just a good photo how you got the board in the case or as such.

I want to see the power plug for the board [24pin] or such? and the power plug you have for the cpu [4pin] Mainly...ok

go to http://imageshack.us/ and upload the photos - click on the fullsize image afterwardsit will give you a link in the address bar. Post those photos here so we can see whats up there.

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After doing some research with my online friends we believe the problem is the motherboard. This motherboard is suppose to be brand new but my friend who sent it to me told me he had issues with this motherboard and returned it to Newegg and they sent him a new one. He never used it, kept it in the box. However, we found many people had issues with this particular board and its probably why newegg no longer has it in stock.

I tried every possible solution I could find online:

remove board battery

clear CMOS

hit power button with battery removed and CMOS jumper on clear and power disconnected

removed memory

replaced memory

tried with video card connected

tried with onboard vga connection

removed and reinstalled processor

tried monitor on different PC and worked fine

tried different monitor

At this point, short of testing every chip, wire, connection, resistor and capacitor on the MoBo, I have done everything possible to troubleshoot this problem and it would seem the MoBo is the culprit so the only way to test this will be to get my hands on another MoBo to try it out. Thanks for all your help, much appreciated.

OK Chuck, sounds like it is the board and yes it is a bad apple.

Let us know what you get and how it comes out.