So I recently built myself a new PC but ran into an issue. Whenever I turn the PC on after two seconds it ticks and then shuts down. It will continually do this in a cycle until I turn off the PSU or unplug the computer. I'm open to any suggestions as to what this may be thanks for the help everyone.
The Build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fL23D3
What I've tried
1.) Checked all connections
2.) Checked front panel headers
3.) Changed RAM
4.) Checked to make sure no cables were touching fan blades in case of sensors
5.) Turned eco mode on and off on my PSU
Edit: Sorry I forgot to mention that I think the tick is coming from the PSU.
What RAM have you tested? Other than faulty hardware, the first thing that pops up to me is that the Xeon doesn't support 1866 MHz RAM, which typically is fine as it just won't clock up that high, but the motherboard also does not show support for DDR3-1866 either so that may be the issue.
It does with XMP profiles but I switched it out with some Gskill Sniper 1600MHz.
Yea, I suppose that's right. I'm used to using AMD chipsets which tend to be more picky. At that point I would just try testing hardware then. Swap everything out from another system if you can until you get it to post? Otherwise the culprit could be faulty hardware.
take the motherboard out of the case, lay it on its box,
reseat the cpu, ram, gpu, connect the psu, and fire it up outside the case.
You could try with just 1 ram stick firstly.
also as far as i know, the xeon´s dont support higher then 1600mhz ram.
Okay I will try that tomorrow once I get out of school and let you know how it goes, thanks for the suggestion.
Sorry it's taken me so long to respond I just wasn't able to work on my PC the last couple of days. Anyways I tried everything you said minus putting in my GPU and I still have the same problem. My USB 3 connector has a pin laying down in the connector could that be causing the problem?
Yes that could be shorting out the motherboard try bending the pin back to normal.
@cooperman I tried unbending the pin last night but there's no way. The pin is bent down in between two other pins so there's no way to access it.
Time to send it back then.
I figured I thought that port was awfully lose when I bought it.
usb shortings will cause boards to acting very weird.
Big chance that this is your issue
Thanks for the help everyone my board has been approved for an RMA.