New build won't power up

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ViRGE

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Wow, using a Quark chip is a really good idea! Server boards have an ARM chip on the motherboard that drives the lights-out management which can help with this, but consumer boards don't have anything like that. A Quark chip is a great observation since the transistor budget should be minimal. All it really needs to do is be able to power the UEFI, so that's not a lot of power.
Well thank you.:) I was originally going to suggest an ARM chip, but it occurred to me that it makes more sense to use Quark since it's something Intel already produces, and it doesn't seem like UEFI and BIOS flashing should require all that powerful of a CPU. Though it's x86 and not x86-64... (maybe a stripped down Bonnell core instead if Quark doesn't cut it?)