Building My Own Computer System

by Nate
(USA)

Having trouble building my own computer.

Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 black 3.2mhz
Motherboard/ MSI 890FXA-GD70
Video-cards 2 x EVGA Geforce 250 1gb 256bit in Xfire (only used one for the initial set up)
Power: Coolmaster 650W

I've gone through 3 different memory sticks all DDR3 dual chn 1600, 1800, 2000 (tried all different kinds only using one in the first slot for power ups).

I've gone step by step troubleshooting each part. Every thing powers on and looks in working order, vice either the CPU or some part of the Mother board.

Lights on the board come on and I get a flashing red light by the battery (not sure what that means and it's not in the MoBo manual).

I can't get to any bios set up or any indication that the processor is running.

I removed the MoBo from the case, set it on its box and tried booting only the CPU, memory, power supply and the video cards (swapping out each one to rule out a video card issue.)

Ive ruled out case shorts, memory, video cards and power supply.

I'm left with either Mobo or CPU but Mobo seems to be working fine and I have a hard time believing I got a bad AMD cpu (pins all normal and no chips or marks.)

Am I missing something simple or do I have major issue?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!