sorry to hear the build is fighting!
can you assemble all the components on the desk, not in the case? it will make it easier to test everything and debug any issues
sounds like you have perhaps identified a faulty motherboard, but have you got any other RAM you can use to test the system? or test that RAM in another system? is there anything got stuck in the RAM slots? are all the RAM and slot contacts clean including finger grease?
hopefully if the MB is faulty you can get it exchanged and try your build again, you will get there
Thx man, I could but I didn’t hence “bad choses”, I thought I was in the clear since I felt like I know what I'm doing. Sure, I'm rusty but I really felt confident in everything..
Sadly, I don’t have another motherboard compatible with this CPU nor dose it accept these RAM’s so the only thing I could do was to try to reach POST and into Bios with what I had, and so I labeled the ram sticks.
With this MB there is an attachment that lets you Flash and upgrade your Bios without being in Bios and since I couldn’t get it to Post I couldn’t reach bios. So that was the first thing I did.
When that didn’t solve anything, I removed both sticks, blow air in the slots, cleaned the slots and even the entire backside of the MB. The RAM contacts on the backside are nowhere to be seen(!) anyway I did even clean around the RAM slots with proper isopropanol.
Still no post, switched them RAM 1 into DIMM slot B and RAM 2 into DIMM slot A. Still no post, stuck at yellow color/signal on this Asus HIVE module.
So cleared CMOS some more times, took both sticks out again, cleaned those contacts and looked at each pin I could see as close I cloud and carefully inspected each on both the MB and the RAM’s everything did seem fine.
I decided to go with one RAM (1) stick at the time and got nothing in DIMM slot A, and then with on RAM (1) in the DIMM slot B it past the checks and damn it was a fast POST and boot with some errors, but I could get into the bios(!).
So naturally I started making changes and saved different profiles and BIOS images to my USB stick so if I got stuck I could rollback.
I decided to put the nvme2 ssd into the system and attached all the fans and other headers and the daughterboard, front panel ports and so on, everything worked, the bios recognized each single thing. So, I went even further, installed Windows 11 pro, updated everything I could, anything you can think of, and everything seemed fine and worked and the system info was giving me everything as it should, even the RAM type and speed and so on.
So, I decided to give DIMM slot A another chance, turned everything off, and couldn’t get it to post with both slots occupied, but posted ofc without any problem when I inserted RAM (2) into DIMM slot B and into Windows, there it was like I haven’t even rebooted and everything was fine..
Dismantling everything, CPU, AIO, and so on, nothing seems to be damaged, no bent pins on the motherboard where CPU sits as far as I could inspect, and neither was there anything to take note of underneath the CPU.
Long story short, my conclusion was the motherboard is faulty and so I have already done RMA for it, packed it and sent it, now fingers cross they send me a new one and don’t waist weeks after weeks with inspections and possibly repairing stuff..
Since I see this all as a defeat I also decided to return the case, and will be going with the
Meshroom S (Gray one). Placed an order on that and returned even the Lian Li case to the reseller.