Z170 k4 not posting

Ps,I have tried another gfx card too

Motorhead12 wrote: Just received my new motherboard, a 6700k, and 16gb of ripjaws ddr4 3000 mhz. It will not boot up, the display, mouse or keyboard do not come on, but everything inside the pc is fine,all lights and fans running as is my 980gtx. I have tried it with only one ssd, the same. I have swapped the two ram sticks in every possible combination, nothing again, using one or two sticks. I have tried another psu, the same, my psu is 850, so no power issues there. Is this a return to manufacturer? Thanks for any advice

By "not boot up", you really mean you cannot get into the UEFI/BIOS, since you get no signal to your monitor.

Since you haven't installed an OS yet (hopefully not using an OS drive installed on another PC), the board is in a basic state. You must use a wired mouse and keyboard, in the USB 2.0 ports until an OS is installed. The fancier the keyboard and mouse you use, the more likely it won't work until the OS is installed, and their drivers are installed.

Are you sure your monitor is set to auto detect which input it is using? Most monitors default to manual switching of the input.

Try removing any video card, and use the iGPU in the CPU. After you remove the video card, and are getting the PC back together again, clear the BIOS/UEFI. You must clear the BIOS after every hardware change, like moving the memory sticks around.

You should be using the two black slots for your memory.

Nope, nothing from the on board graphics either

Motorhead12 wrote: I'm going to rma it, the cpu socket is damaged very slightly

Yea, that'll do it too.