Bought i7 mobo/cpu/mem

[DisgruntledVirus]

Picked up the Core i7 920, Asus P6T mobo, and 4 gb's of Corsair DDR3 at Microcenter yesterday. I decided to be cheap and buy a returned board (it was against my better judgement, but $50 cheaper was enough to make me go for it). Well, I got home, installed the mobo/mem/cpu/gpu into my case and tried powering it on. Nothing. No fans spinning, no POSTing, etc. The only thing that has lights are the onboard power/reset switches. Both of those are lit up.

So, after trying a few different things I take the system back apart. While looking at the cpu and socket I noticed that the contacts on the bottom of the cpu had indents from the pins. 90% of them are in the center, but about 10% are not where they should be (either off the contact completely and 2 pins hitting one contact, off on the contact not hitting anything, etc). I look on the pins on the mobo and on that same side the pins are off on I can see noticeable differences between some pins and the majority of them.

So, a few questions:
First why wouldn't the system be booting? Would the bad pin contacts be the issue?
Second, is there anything I can try (since it's a holiday and they are closed I can't return it today) to see if it works?
Third, if the mobo pins made incorrect contacts on the cpu will that kill the cpu?
Fourth, should I return both the board and CPU or just the board?

 

[igloo15]

4gbs of memory??

How exactly do you have 4gb in triple channel? or is it 3 sticks of 4gbs?

 

[Beanie46]

Probably meant 6GB and hit the 4 by mistake.

Anyway, I'd be on MC's doorstep when they open in the morning. The mb was probably returned after a numbnut screwed the pins in the socket up not realizing they are much more delicate and easier to futz up than socket 775 pins ever were. So, he screwed them up, couldn't get it to boot, took it back. MC "checked it out".......looked at it but never mounted a cpu into it.......marked it down and there it waited for a sucker, errrr, cheapskate, errrr, frugal buyer, to come along.

Been there, done that, never again. Open/returned motherboards never, I will take chances on other things but not them.

 

[theAnimal]

i7 works fine with 4GB in dual channel, but you need to make sure it's low voltage RAM.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: Beanie46
Probably meant 6GB and hit the 4 by mistake.

Anyway, I'd be on MC's doorstep when they open in the morning. The mb was probably returned after a numbnut screwed the pins in the socket up not realizing they are much more delicate and easier to futz up than socket 775 pins ever were. So, he screwed them up, couldn't get it to boot, took it back. MC "checked it out".......looked at it but never mounted a cpu into it.......marked it down and there it waited for a sucker, errrr, cheapskate, errrr, frugal buyer, to come along.

Been there, done that, never again. Open/returned motherboards never, I will take chances on other things but not them.

Well, before I posted the OP I called planning on doing just that. Said they were closed when I called at 10:30 AM (their hours say they open at 10) on their automated message. Well, after the threads in here on hot deals about the P55 mobos at MC and stuff, I decided to try again. Called them a second time and they were open.

Got my gf and friend together and we went up returned the mobo/cpu (and 4 gb of Corsair RAM. Yes 4 gb does work, I verified with the mobo prior to buying it). I ended up buying a new Asus P6T (the associate actually went in back to get one from the stock room instead of on the floor :thumbsup, 6 gb of OCZ RAM, and the 920 D0 stepping. Got it home and it works, installed Windows 7 and am having fun with it

Thanks for the help everybody, it's resolved now.