Troubleshooting EZ Debug LED

[Project Apollyon]

EZ DEBUG LED shows RED CPU and AMBER DRAM 

Building my first pc; I've done teardowns before and so I'm moderately knowledgeable on parts, specs, and whatnot.
I was going for the most budget options with high specs, so here is the parts list:
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

CPU: Ryzen 7900X

MOBO: MSI B650M-A Wifi

RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (single stick of dual channel)
Wraith Prism Cooler; I will also try the LT720 Liquid Cooler, but I don't think this is the problem. 

1 TB SSD, Samsung Brand

PSU: 1000W TF Skywind Intl. RGB

 

Concerning the RAM, I had a pair of dual channel 2x16GB Kingston Fury 5600MHz, but was not on the MOBO QVL list. I have been using the Corsair stick ever since, for trouble shooting. I made sure to put the single Corsair Dominator into the DIMMA2 slot- according to the user guide. Similarly, when using the 2x16GB Kingston Fury, I used the DIMMA2 and DIMMB2 slots- again, according the user guide. No success. 

I have tried Flashing BIOS with USB stick; Flash is successful, but PC won't BOOT. Can't get a display, tried reapplying thermal paste, resocketing CPU, DRAM, removing everything except PSU, CPU, RAM and MOBO; still doesn't work. Integrated graphics on the CPU should have created a display even without the GPU, but no success. It appeared that some of the pins on the CPU SOCKET (on the MOBO) were bent; I carefully put them back in shape, testing before and after this. Online resources said a couple bent SOCKET pins would not affect conductivity.

I have reset CMOS multiple times, reuploading latest BIOS. Has worked more times than not. 

Otherwise, I've been stuck for weeks. The PC turns on- RBG fans and RAM light up- but no BOOT. I have tried exchanging PSUs- previously I was using the CORSAIR CX750 RGB. I am aware the TF Skywind is a terrible PSU, but it's working for now and I just want this to work. The only thing that has changed is that occasionally the BOOT and VGA LEDs will light up as well, sometimes turning OFF the CPU LED. I have no idea why this happens. 

Pins are as follows:
8 pin connector to CPU
ATX to MOBO
2 separate Daisy 8 pins to GPU- I made sure to not connected 8pins on the daisies, there are two 8 pins running from PSU to CPU


PLEASE HELP ME
 

 

[RONOTHAN##]

16 minutes ago, Project Apollyon said:

Online resources said a couple bent SOCKET pins would not affect conductivity.

Those resources are wrong. A single bent pin can prevent the system from turning on. It's not guaranteed, there are some pins in the socket that don't actually need to be there, but there are plenty of pins that would prevent the system from turning on if they're not present. 

 

It just sounds like the motherboard is dead though. If it arrived with bent pins, I'd say it's a pretty safe assumption it had a hard life before you and likely doesn't work. Good luck getting your money back on it though.