First high-end 3D and Video workstation build / Troubleshooting

[Rainok]

Hi Guys,

 

Working on my first build. Got tired of waiting on my renders so decided to build a workhorse that could handle rendering with Vray and compositing in Photoshop better then my current Dell workstation.

The files that I work with are usually 8K renders composited as 16 bit images in Photoshop. Files tend to get huge - up to 4-5Gb psb's

 

Here is the build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NC3T99

 

The only issue that I had was that the radiator of the first cooler that I tried (Corsair H105) was too high(38mm) and didn't fit between the sink of the motherboard and the case. The H100i radiator was 27mm high and fit very nice with the fans on top of the case pulling air through the radiator.

 

So. Here's the troubleshooting part. it doesn't boot up

 

I didn't hear the BIOS POST beep and my monitor stays asleep. I tried booting w/o the graphics card and then removing all the DIMM's with the same result.

The only lights that come on on the mobo are the ON button and the Reset button. The number display stays at 00. Corsair cooler is working, all the fans are working.

 

Stumped, no idea how to proceed. Is it the motherboard? DOA?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated..