Is this a cpu or motherboard issue

[ItsJustin]

Hello. I posted on here about 4 months ago about wanting to upgrade a prebuilt I got off the company iron side. I liked the advice I received and this last week decided to go through with the plan to upgrade. I went to Newegg and ordered an i5 9600k for a good deal and an msi z370 a pro. The parts arrived yesterday and I started putting things together. I get it all ready and it doesn’t boot. I follow the guide on this form pinned at the top, still doesn’t boot. Guide says if it still doesn’t it’s probably the motherboard. So I go pickup a new motherboard, I got the gigabyte gaming x lga1151 and go home. Plug everything in add cooler the whole nine yards and when I plug it in the leds on the back of the motherboard turn on but it still won’t boot. The only thing I haven’t changed yet is the graphics card and proccesor which leads me to believe Newegg sent me a dead proccesor... Here is a PCpartpicker list of my specs, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$249.99 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler	$19.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	Gigabyte - Z390 GAMING X ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$109.99 @ Newegg
Memory	Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$99.99 @ Newegg Business
Storage	Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$39.99 @ Monoprice
Video Card	MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB Video Card	$139.00 @ Amazon
Power Supply	EVGA - 500 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply	$31.89 @ OutletPC
Operating System	Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit	$98.89 @ OutletPC
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$839.73
	Mail-in rebates	-$50.00
	Total	$789.73
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-25 02:57 EST-0500

 

[TTesla]

36 minutes ago, ItsJustin said:

Hello. I posted on here about 4 months ago about wanting to upgrade a prebuilt I got off the company iron side. I liked the advice I received and this last week decided to go through with the plan to upgrade. I went to Newegg and ordered an i5 9600k for a good deal and an msi z370 a pro. The parts arrived yesterday and I started putting things together. I get it all ready and it doesn’t boot. I follow the guide on this form pinned at the top, still doesn’t boot. Guide says if it still doesn’t it’s probably the motherboard. So I go pickup a new motherboard, I got the gigabyte gaming x lga1151 and go home. Plug everything in add cooler the whole nine yards and when I plug it in the leds on the back of the motherboard turn on but it still won’t boot. The only thing I haven’t changed yet is the graphics card and proccesor which leads me to believe Newegg sent me a dead proccesor... Here is a PCpartpicker list of my specs, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$249.99 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler	$19.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	Gigabyte - Z390 GAMING X ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$109.99 @ Newegg
Memory	Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$99.99 @ Newegg Business
Storage	Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$39.99 @ Monoprice
Video Card	MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB Video Card	$139.00 @ Amazon
Power Supply	EVGA - 500 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply	$31.89 @ OutletPC
Operating System	Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit	$98.89 @ OutletPC
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$839.73
	Mail-in rebates	-$50.00
	Total	$789.73
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-25 02:57 EST-0500

 

Double check all your building work, your power cables, mobo front panel headers, ram seating, etc.

 

It's exceedingly rare for a straight up DOA new CPU to get through QC, but certainly possible, and in that case you should be able to get a replacement no problem.