System Won't Boot (Go Button LED Flashing and Clear CMOS flashing)

[Bigburkeyboy]

Hey guys I have an ASUS Maximus V Extreme motherboard and the system will not boot. There is a flashing red LED next to the Go Button on the motherboard itself and on the back of the case the Clear CMOS button is flashing green. I have tried turning the power supply on and off. I have also tried pressing the clear CMOS button on the back of the case as well as pressing the go button.
Sadly the system will not boot at all.

Does anyone have any ideas?
I am obviously very upset and hope you guys may be able to provide some help. Thank you so much!

[HiVizMan]

Could you please list all your hardware.

And please tell me what is the two digit Q-code that you can see on the LED poster next to the start button.

And ensure that you have all the 12 V CPU EPS connectors fitted securely.

[Bigburkeyboy]

I am using
Intel Core i7 2600k
Corsair H60
2x Corsair 4GB DDR3
2x EVGA GTX680 2GB
Corsair AX850 Gold

There is no numerical code on the motherboard, that part is blank.
On the rear of the case the Clear CMOS is a solid green, the small LED next to the Go button is flashing red, and the BIOS LED down at the bottom of the mono is orange.
Thank you for the quick reply, let me know if you need any more info

[HiVizMan]

Could you please confirm that all the PSU connections are fitted, and list all your hardware, keyboard, mouse and hard drives as well as the PC monitor.

[Bigburkeyboy]

I think the motherboard is fried
I took everything out of the case and set the power supply up and left the CPU in and I'm getting the same problem
It won't even make any noise when just the CPU, power supply are attached outside the case

Quick question: if I bought the exact same motherboard would I still need to reinstall windows 7?

[HiVizMan]

Nope your OS will be good.

What worries me is what fried the motherboard.

[red454]

I just got my MVF back from an RMA episode. Well, they replaced the board, so it is not my original board. Anyway, I get the "new" board installed with all the peripherals and powered it up - my go button LED was flashing too. The clear CMOS was not, so it was not exactly like yours, but I tried everything. Swapped ram in different slots, and even with no ram, the go LED would still just flash. No trouble code LEDs, no fans spinning. Nothing. Reseated the CPU, tried different ram, different PSU. Took the GPU off, disconnected all the SATA cables. Still nothing but the flashing go button LED. Ready to give up.

Then I took the mPCIe Combo card off and it fired up and got into the BIOS screen. THEN I couldn't get windows to install - it would hang on the "Copying Files" prompt. Tried 6 or 7 times. Then tried to put a Win 7 ISO on a flash drive for a USB install - no luck. Burned a new Win 7 DVD - no luck. Finally put all the Win 7 files on the bare SSD - booted to it and Windows started to install from the SSD. Didn't think you could install the OS from the same drive. Well, it worked - that was one fast Win 7 install. Put the mPCIe Combo back on and it works.

[TIGGER]

put all the Win 7 files on the bare SSD - booted to it and Windows started to install from the SSD

Thanks, i will remember that for the future.

[HiVizMan]

Wow seriously I have learnt something here. Am going to try this myself. Thanks mate.

[red454]

I tried it out of frustration. And it worked. I suppose it makes sense. Point the boot path to where ever the install files are...

The only issue was that the Windows Boot Manager screen loads and gives you a choice to load your "two" versions of Windows at every startup, and this is easy to disable when you run msconfig from the command prompt. Then go to the Boot tab and delete the "bad" version and leave the entry that points to your new OS install. And don't forget to delete all your install files as they are no longer needed.