Hi i recently purchased an Asus P8Z68-V LX motherboard. Well while installing it into my case it has BENT slightly, like arched but only slightly. My new custom build including this motherboard is not starting up, but the standby light still comes on when i plug it in. Please could you let me know what hardware i need for the motherboard to start or if the motherboard is broken. I also have installed in this case; an Intel pentium 4 dual core G860 CPU, a samsung 24x DVD rewritable drive, a 250 GB Western Digital Hard Drive anda 650W Ace Power Supply. I have used the PSU and the HDD in other computers so i know they work. Please help. ThanksMost likely the motherboard is damaged due to being bent. Take it to your local PC shop and have them test it
how do you test a motherboard. Also would the standby light still come on if it was broken ?Because those teeny little LED's need hardly any power to light and are no indication of whether the MBoard is good or not...Probably has the standoffs in the wrong positions or an extra one where it doesn't belong.Some techs test a mobo by putting it in a CARDBOARD box, like a pizza box. Connect power and keyboard only. Hit the start JUMPER, the keyboard should flash.

In several seconds  If the keyboard does another flash, the thing is doing some kind of work with the CPU and bios. It is mostly working. 

But if not, the CPU is not running with the BIOS. It is really not working and it could be anything. Like a CPU not in the socket the right way.