P45D3 Platinum wont start

Got P45D3 board as brand new today.
Hardware:
P45D3 Motherboard Bios seems to be 7513v12
Antech 500W 80+ PFS Power Supply
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9950 SLB8V
4x 1GB Geil PC3-12800 CL 7-7-7-24
GPU Albatron 9600GT-512X 512 MB DDR3 SLI
1TB SATAII Hardisk plus DVD RW
Put everything together, checked everything.
1 red led on.  Pressed power, and all blue led's blinked once, cpu fan turned once, and nothing else happend.
No error beep nothing.
Tried other PS same problem.
Disassembled everything and assembled it outside the chasis,
and tried Motherboard 2x1 ram cpu  and graphic card - Same as above - nothing.
Tried again without ram - samething
Tried again without ram and GPU - samething
Tried again with everything but this time changed the CPU to a Core2 E6850 - samething
All the above procedure was again tried with a MSI NX8500GT GPU
Once again tried everything with a different 500W PS - Still nothing happend.
By mistake I forgot to connect the CPU and GPU power connector. Now the board lights all led's but still its not alive.
Connected the CPU power again. And the board was dead as before.
Tried the same with only the GPU power connected, and again dead.
Moved CPU GPU and RAM to my P35 Platinum and after reset it came to life.
Why can't get the P45D3 to start up. Everything works but that Mainboard.
Something I'm missing, or do I have a dead board??????  

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However I dont know which are the status leds, since this is not described anywhre in the manual.
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and tried Motherboard 2x1 ram cpu  and graphic card - Same as above - nothing.
Please test with one memory module only and try a different PSU while the board is sitting on a non-conducting surface outside the case.
Check the CPU Socket for bent and broken pins as well.

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