Motherboard Swap not going well....

I just switched out my D975xbx2 intel board for an ASUS P5E WS Pro.

The first time I powered on the computer it complained about no system fan(I am water cooling so there is none) followed by no hard drives and then what I remember as a fault of some sort.

After clearing the CMOS(A huge pain on this boad) it booted to a screen asking me to hit F1 for setup or F2 to use default values. I went into setup modified the time etc and looked through the settings. After saving settings the computer promptly rebooted with no video. I never received a beep so it seems irrelevant that there was none here.

So once again I clear the CMOS and boot it up leading to the same screen. This time I select F2 for default settings. As I am using the same HDD the computer went straight to attempting to boot windows. I see the standard loading windows bar and then suddenly a blue screen stop error message.

Once again reboot and get no video. At this point I decide...ok maybe something loading on windows is causing a problem from my old mobo. So off I go to reinstall windows. Clear the cmos again and get the F1 or F2 screen. I select F1 to make sure the boot order is correct, it is not, and set it to boot from cd first. Reboot the PC and no video.

Any ideas what might be going on here? Is there some setting I am missing in the bios for setup I need to set to something?

I pretty sure that you have to reinstall Windows when you switch motherboards.

alright, whenever u switch ur mobo. best thing to do. fresh installation of windows. i seen many people wanting to go around it, then getting back n whining about it.

second, im not sure if u have mobo problem or not. but the guys here will tell u something for sure.

You need to hit F2 for defaults and when it starts to boot hit F8 rappidly until you get a screen that lets you choose to boot from CD. Choose CD and reinstall windows.

Remove everything but 1 stick of ram and the video card, no HD no opitical storage. See if it still reacts in this manner. If it boots well add your DVD and run memtest. Check all your memory. If al is good start adding things back one at a time. See if the behavior reoccurs.

I'm really sorry to read you got sucked up into the Anus propaganda machine and bought the P5E WS Professional.
A good choice would have been to keep the Intel Desktop Board D975XBX2 until Intel releases the Nehalem processor and Intel releases an Extreme series motherboard based on the Tylersburg chipset.
If you absolutely had to upgrade right now a good choice would be to use the Intel Desktop Board DX48BT2 and bite the bullet and buy DDR3 DRAM. Patriot memory has an inexpensive extreme performance DDR3 kit that works well on Intel X38/X48 motherboards.
If you can't bite the DDR3 DRAM bullet right now and you just have to have a new motherboard then I would recommend the GigaShyte GA-X48-DQ6 motherboard.
The Anus motherboard BIOS is a pain in the ass.
My sympathy is with you because once you buy an Anus product you are stuck with it for life. No refunds and as for RMA, Anus will cause you so much frustration you will want to shoot yourself in the foot.

@Mugs Masochist am I then. Asus Maximus Formula, Intel Q6600 @ 3.6ghz, DRR2-800 CL3 was fairly easy.

Still the first thing when switching to Watercooling is your cpu fan, any motherboard you choose just doesn't like to boot without a CPU fan. Some watercooling suppliers do have solutions for this problem, like Koolance has a flow meter that has a frequency adapter to convert coolant flow into fan RPM just for this problem. But a poor man fix is to just hook up a case fan to the CPU fan header on your motherboard. Once into your BIOS some boards allow you to disable CPU fan reporting some don't.

The Gigabyte boards I've dealt with have all been quite happy to run without a CPU fan. Only if the alarm is enabled, you just get this horrible *BREEEEEEEE* noise...