Time for an update and sorry to say it isn't good...
New board arrived on Friday, today I got around to putting it in and.... it appears to be dead. That makes 2 boards from newegg that have been DOA.
The new board doesn't get power to it at all, nothing, nadda, zilch. I did the whole thing of having it out side the case to make sure it wasn't shorting, tried it with out any devices hooked up, moving memory around, checking the cpu. All seemed fine, the fact that the board doesn't show any sings of power points to a bad board to me (tried a 2nd power supply and same result the original is running my current system with no issue). With the Asus, the board would power, just not post.
So for now I am unsure what I am going to do, I am tired of not having a working system, I am thinking of heading out to the local MicroCenter tomorrow and picking up a board, at least if it is bad I can take it back with out having the hassles of shipping. I don't see it being the memory or cpu... perhaps tomorrow will be better, at least FoS didn't go down this time
I have yet to contact newegg about getting another bad board, I am sure they will take it back, just not sure I want to bother getting another one from them. I have bought more system components from newegg than I can count, for myself and building for my friends and family and I have never had this kind of problem before.
Frustrating to be sure.