P67A-GD65 B3 won't boot?

I just bought a new P67A-GD65 from Fry's an I cannot get it to boot. I installed it with an Intel i5 2500k with stock cooler, Patriot DDR3 1333 PSD38G1333KH ram (2x4gb), Cooler Master Silent Pro 800W power supply, two Caviar Blue 320gb hard drives, and two EVGA GTX470 graphics cards.
All the equipment is brand new, with the exception of the hard drives and graphics cards, both of which were working fine in my previous system.
When I try to power on the system, the fans will spin up, the hard drives will spool, but after about a second the system will shut down, and then try to restart itself. It does this over and over indefinitely until I turn off the power supply. I have tried removing everything except one stick of ram and one VGA, but same results. I returned one mobo, thinking it must have been a defective mobo, but I have the same results with the new one. The LEDS at the top show the CPU going from phase 1 to phase 6 and then the whole system shuts down. The BIOS LED's stay blank. I have checked the CPU pins, as well as the bottom of the CPU, and both look good. The bottom of the CPU has indents where the mobo pins made contact, so I know there is no contact issue there.
I have read multiple posts about rebooting issues, but they seem to vary in cause or when the reboot occurs. Does anyone have an idea of what is going on here? I am at wits end, and about to return the whole setup and go with some non-sandy bridge setup.

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