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Well here is an update. I got the Replacement board in today. Here is the results. Do not worry the fans on the video card and cpu are spinning its just looks like they are not moving.

Jkap needs donations for replacement motherboard. This is what happened. Jkap bought a ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard from tigerdirect.com back in December. Along with an AMD FX 6300 6 core cpu and 4GB to start off with two Crucial Ballistix sport. He was not able to get the rest of the parts around 70 days later to start building a better system. I spent hours walking him through on building it. Taking pictures to make sure everything was right. When he went to power it on there was nothing on the screen. So we did the bare basics just enough part to make it boot. I told him I was pretty sure the board was junk. So he RMA's it for repair to ASUS they send it back less than a week claiming it was repaired. He puts it back together and the same thing. Nothing on the screen. So I had him to ship me the motherboard, CPU and RAM/Memory to test it. The CPU and RAM works just fine on my spare system here. So that leaves the motherboard is at fault. I got the same results with working known good parts. I got the long beep and 3 short beeps meaning the video card is not present. I found that if you slightly flex the board it would POST. I was able to put Windows 7 on a spare drive and it passed Prime 95 stress test. But once the board has cooled off it quits working. I tried contacting ASUS to get them replace this board. Either the person would hangup or Close the online chat for service or blame an incompatible video card. Which I never heard of unless it was for a different type slot. Tigerdirect's return policy is only 30 days so hes screwed there. Unless he buys another board then return this piece of junk back under the new board's receipt. I can chip in at least $15 on a replacement board for him. He will need $100 to get a replacement one. Is there anyone willing to help chip in for a board for him?