It's Dead Jim

[Coquito]

Gigabyte GA-965P-S3
Cooler Master ATC 201C
Fortron Blue Storm 500w
Corsair Value 667 1gb x2
Retail e6300
7900gs

One of the pieces of the backplate ended up shorting the board. Good to go as of Friday.

 

[acx]

Just short the 2 power pins on the motherboard momentarily. This will act as a switch to turn on the mobo.

 

[Coquito]

The system booted up after leaving the battery out for a couple hours & without the video card. Overjoyed, I shut down again, unplugged, reattached everything, & there's no sign of life. I'll leave out the battery & hope it all powers up. I hope it's not the card shorting things out & just some safety measure like with the bios & cmos.

 

[imported_Stin]

Have you checked the voltage on the cmos battery?