One other thing you could have tried that's worth mentioning is removing the board from the case and putting it on a piece of cardboard, hooking up the basic components, and tried to boot outside of the case in case it was just shorting against the case.
New Build PC not Powering up
- Thread starter spike47
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Personally I just dump it on a wooden table
Whichever works
. As long as it's a non-conductive surface. I usually say cardboard assuming you have the motherboard box available to give a nice raised surface in case there's a need for the GPU to be inserted/hang off the edge of the box.
I'd have to agree with this. In some instants a stand off or two in redundant and is touching the backside of the mother board ground it out. Or the stand offs aren't even installed.
