Z270 Extreme 4 - No display

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   First time building a PC and you can imagine the disappointment in not being able to get any display going... although it seems to start up. I do not have a dedicated graphics card, will buy later down the road. Want to use integrated at first. A bunch of lights on mobo + fans. I have tried to use each slot of ram with a separate card to see if it would work, nope. Tried all display adapters (HDMI, DVI, VGA). Reset CMOS. Reseatted CPU. Dont know what else I could do. I decided to look into it further and noticed that the ram I had purchased is not on the support memory list on ASRock's website. Could this really be the cause? I am thinking that there could be backwards compatibility since the ram I bought is for z170 intel chipset. 
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ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 Intel Z270 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Motherboards - Intel
PSU: CORSAIR CX Series CX650 650W ATX12V 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151 91W Desktop Processor
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel Z170 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16D-16GVK
FAN: Corsair Hydro Series H100i V2 Extreme Performance Water / Liquid CPU Cooler. 240mm

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chitemuort Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02 Dec 2017 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote chitemuort Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Z270 Extreme 4 - No display Posted: 02 Dec 2017 at 2:28am
	First time building a PC and you can imagine the disappointment in not being able to get any display going... although it seems to start up. I do not have a dedicated graphics card, will buy later down the road. Want to use integrated at first. A bunch of lights on mobo + fans. I have tried to use each slot of ram with a separate card to see if it would work, nope. Tried all display adapters (HDMI, DVI, VGA). Reset CMOS. Reseatted CPU. Dont know what else I could do. I decided to look into it further and noticed that the ram I had purchased is not on the support memory list on ASRock's website. Could this really be the cause? I am thinking that there could be backwards compatibility since the ram I bought is for z170 intel chipset. SPECS: ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 Intel Z270 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Motherboards - Intel PSU: CORSAIR CX Series CX650 650W ATX12V 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151 91W Desktop Processor RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel Z170 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16D-16GVK FAN: Corsair Hydro Series H100i V2 Extreme Performance Water / Liquid CPU Cooler. 240mm

chitemuort Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02 Dec 2017 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote chitemuort Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Dec 2017 at 3:16am
	Doing more research, I find that the RAM I bought is apparently compatible according to G Skill : ( https://www.gskill.com/en/configurator?manu=52&chip=2859&model=2883

chitemuort Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02 Dec 2017 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote chitemuort Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Dec 2017 at 4:26am
	Folks, I am officially a monkey. I never had the CPU cable plugged in. Please note me as an example of rushing to conclusions without checking all components are plugged in.