ASRock H170 Pro4/Hyper problem

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 parsec wrote:

Any reason for the CPU cooler to be not mounted, besides showing the pins in the CPU socket?

The pictures, besides showing obvious physical damage, or power cable connection problems, are not worth anything. I would inspect the underside of the board, which is more likely to reveal damage to components, or shorted pins from the memory slots, for example.

No, just exactly for that. 
There is a picture of underneath, I will post it at the end of the post.

 parsec wrote:

Otherwise, a short circuit is only one of possible problems with a PC mother board. The only way I would buy a used mother board, is from someone I knew, or could see it working myself. There are too many things invisible to the human eye that can fail.

Yes, I know I did not do great. I never buy used. But this is probably the only time in my life I've jumped the gun. Can you blame me? It was reasonably priced and I wanted it, as no local retailers had the board and it is a newer product. Hindsight is terrible, learned it the hard way :(

 parsec wrote:

Electronic component failures on a mother board can only be seen if the component is damaged from heat, being burned. Otherwise there is nothing to see.

Your mouse is flickering constantly? Is it a wired mouse, connected to a USB port? Do you mean the light from the bottom of the mouse, used to detect its movement? If so, that can be normal, as the mouse goes into a low power state when it is doing nothing.

If the flickering is from an LED on the top of the mouse, only used for appearance, and is a wired mouse connected to a USB port, that could mean your power supply is not working correctly.

Have you tried more than one power supply with this board?

The LED is flickering connected to USB port.
Yes, the first time Corsair 750M was used for the board along with a different CPU and memory. The power supply used is just fine, since it is powering my current rig from which I am writing now with no problem (FX-8350, GTX 960, ASRock 990FX Killer).

So sorry if I am wasting everybody's time, but I am grateful that people with more knowledge are trying to help me. Since there is probably nothing that can be done, I will pin the motherboard to the wall or something, to remind myself of what could have been, since it is a great looking board and the alternative black-white board from MSI (the Krait) is not something I want. Will stay loyal to ASRock, only next time will go to a physical shop. For now, my upgrade will be postponed and Skylake OC will wait.

Pictures of underneath the board:

Edited by Nichixon - 17 Sep 2016 at 2:21pm