No POST, no beep with K8T Neo FIS2R

After buying all of the necessary parts, I assembled them, and was ready to boot up and install XP.  The first time turned the power on, the floppy cable was in backwards and the system shut down.  So I fixed the cable, and the system booted again.  I got into the BIOS, and the system shut down again.  Looking at the D-Bracket and Power LED, I thought that this was the CPU or power supply.  At the time I was using a generic 425W PSU with only 12a on the 12V rail.  After installing a new PSU and Processor, the problem still persists.  I am getting rather frustrated with this and any help would be much appreciated.  My sig describes exactly what I have hooked up right now.  All four D-Bracket LEDs are Red and the Power LED is flashing every 2 seconds.

Hi
If your cutting out. with the power led flashing, thats the power protection mode, reset remove power cable for 5 secs and replace. However, it only really triggers when the CPU is overheated, or shorting.
Check you have not a bent CPU pin, then just a little paste and make sure its tight fitting to Heatsink
Other known causes, an extra pillar fitted to backplate shorting mobo, bent drive connector pins,  USB devices, check that 4 pin square and 20 pin Mobo connectors are in fully and that no pins are discoloured.  Short from spare molex, or fingers on backplate touching inside back connectors.  CMOS jumper on wrong pins.  Faulty PSU. Faulty Disk Drive or 4 pin floppy connector on wrong pins, Ram in wrong way round  (has been done), dirt or debris on mobo, or in AGP slot or RAM dimms
Good luck
jocko

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