Motherboard won't post even after RMA

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I have the MSI Z270 Xpower Gaming Titanium motherboard, with the i7-7700K CPU, along with 32GB of G. Skill Trident 3200 MHz(4x8GB) Ram modules, and a MSI GeForce GTX 1080. My storage is a Samsung 850 Evo SSD. The first time I noticed I had it all together and everything plugged in and the fans and all the lights turn on and spin but nothing shows up on my screen and no POST beep. I tried all three DVI ports on my GpU and nothing. I've tried taking the gpu out of the equation and using the onboard graphics and with the DVI and HDMI and still the same outcome. I've tired all the ram in different slots and even down to trying each one alone on the board. No luck. I've taken it out of the case and tried it with just the CPU and one ran stick and still nothing. I've tried cmos, and the bios b setting and nothing. I contacted msi and all they said after hearing I tried all that was to return it. So amazon accidentally sent me two new motherboards. I only tried with one and I tried all of those configurations and still not luck with this new. Lars. I have another board in the box but I'm not going to try it. I taken all the prior precautions when assembling it, such as having a wrist strap connected to the Modright extreme mat and that's connected to the case which my psu is the grounded to the wall. This is my first build but I was very confident on what to do. After a while With everyone seeming to run I thought it was the monitor, but I plugged my laptop into it with an HDMI since it doesn't had a DVI and the screen worked. Any other possible ideas? Also I've gone ocer many checklists as to possible problems and solutions and all the cables are seated properly, my CPU fan plug has a fan plugged into it, and I've tried taking the battery out for 10 seconds per the manual. I've also read other posts and tried all of their solutions and no luck. One post did say that MSI has some compatibility issues with the G. Skill ram which I wasn't aware of before hand, but I figured the ram was working since all the white led indicators above the were all on for each slot.
 
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Also the Debugcode on the bottom is 30, and the manual says that it's waking from a stage 3 sleep or something like that, I don't have it right in front of me. The psu is a corsair AX 1200i and without the motherboard 24 pin plugged in I presided the test button and the light is green, but when I plug the motherboard back in no light at all. It says if there was an error it'd be red, but there's no light at all so maybe it's a safety thing otherwise it might be my PSU since I haven't tested the plug itself, but like I said all the leds on it representing different things I have plugged in and even the aesthetic color leds (yellow) light up so how could it be my PSU?
 
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Hello?.... I've now replaced the motherboard, CPU, and psu. Also got a different type of ram and tried both sticks, the debug code on the bottom cycles through 02, 04, 0d then to 30. Both boards with all configurations of no ram or anything aside from CPU do that. The only time it changes is with no CPU for obvious reason, it then only says 00. But with no ram and the CPU in it goes to 30 still so it's got to be either the CPU or motherboard, but like I said they both have been rma'ed
 
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I haven't tried different slots but I've tried without a gpu and it still reads the same cycle of numbers
 
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I tried a different set of ram yesterday because MSI thought maybe the motherboard bios wasn't updated and the ram was too new for the board. But after replacing the ram with a hopefully older version still no luck. But finally I took it all to Best Buy and they tried something I tried on the original board but since it didn't work there I didn't even think of it on the new one. But the manual suggests using dimm slots 2 and 4 for optimal performance, but the Best Buy guy only put on of the second ram I bought in the first slot and it worked then he tried one of mine in the first slot and it worked and in the third slot. We didn't try the fourth but then we put all four of my first ram sticks in and it stil worked even the second slot. So apparently you can't use one stick in the second and possibly fourth slot even though the manual says too. But if you have four it'll work. I tried four though on the original board and that didn't work so maybe it was the board the first time. But I figured I'd post this for someone else in case they come up with this problem and no one else's solutions work for them this is just another solution.
 
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