Ready to go postal. need simple answer

i'm about a couple days away from imploding. OK now all I want to know is, Has ASUS fixed the cold boot issue with the rampage II extreme? I'm sure some of you want to yell at me right now but right now I could care less, I think I have a grey hair right now.

I tried calling asus mobo suppport and i think i knew more about my mobo than the reject on the other side of the phone, he told me asus doesn't know about this problem..... I filled out a RMA report and waiting reply tomorrow but from what i've read it won't help me.
Now my situation...
I bought all my parts 4 days after the release of the i7, i felt secure going with Asus and was wrong. now I had this problem once or twice over the entire time i have had this comp, i've found out that I'm very lucky. MY issue is probably the same as all the others you have tried to help. Shut it down, then when I turn it back on it lights up and the fans move for a quick second and fails miserably.

Things i have tried..
removing and checking each of my 3 ram chips.
using the cmos button in the back of mobo.
troubleshooting with every single thing that uses power (fan, gfx card, water-pump, lights).
I haven't been updating my bios but non of them fix this problem.

I haven't tried a different psu, low on $$ and I'm the only person with a psu to power my comp in 50 miles lolz. My biggest guess if its not the mobo it's my ram and I can't get to the bios cause its officially not turning on.

my system
Asus rampage II extreme
6g Corsair 1600mh
Corsair 1000hx 1000w psu( ppl assume its a psu problem but i don't think so)
Sapphire 4870x2
Antec 1200
300g raptor 10,000 rpm

ask for more info if needed, dear god just reply so i don't feel alone sigh.....

From what it sounds, PSU is the problem... Sadly.

Yeah... sometimes I wish there are physical stores that would sell these sort of things, rather than ordering by mail.

At least Best Buy should sell more than just graphics cards, audio cards, and network cards....

Did you read the mother board mannual and put the RAM in the correct slots? DIMM A1, B1, C1. The colored slots, since your RAM is tri - channel the ASUS mobo and your RAM will only work correctly in the correct slots. It's not the ones closest to your CPU like most people think. As Kyeana stated, have you ever had your PC up and running? If you did everything above, then I am with the others on this and i'll say its your PSU.

Go ahead and run through this checklist, chances are your problem in somewhere on here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] t-problems

I seen the cpu init error before and this was occuring because of bent pins. It won't hurt to take your CPU out and check, but make sure you reapply thermal paste while reseating the heat sink.

i don't have a second video card but would putting it in a different pcie slot work? i i just check my pins and they look fine. still showing the cpu init on the poster. gonna try removing things maybe get me past the "cpu init" part and into the options. I'm sure i can start it by selecting bios 1 or 2 with the poster.

Make sure thermal paste does NOT hit motherboard... I hear that would be bad... Very bad...

no luck, changed out all parts, tried every ram chip, reset cmos. out of ideas. thought fixing the lcd poster would give me a better idea but idk. gonna go search internet for possible solution thx for replying guys

thinking about ordering something from newegg to check problem, what should I get. Ram or a PSU? or something else, moneys tight so i can get one thing

well I don't have any old PC to cannibalize and all of my friends have crappy comps. either way if you have a suggestion of which one I should get my hands on, which one and what one would you recommend.

Hope that solves your problem. Good Luck!

nah didn't work, but I was thinking about ordering some dominator ram, even if it isn't the problem i will have better ram for my rig

thank you for that guide crystal i hadn't found that one yet.

Try this and I've seen no one suggest this, but reset your bios, Asus motherboards sometimes needs the bios reset so it can boot up. In other words set to default by doing the bios reset procedure in the manual, and just maybe it might solve your problem. Resetting means pulling the battery for the bios and reseatting it so the cmos can totally clear and go back to default.