X58A Core i7 980x Problem :(

Background:

I got an i7 980x for my birthday (in place of a car) and I instantly went out and bought an ASUS motherboard to go with it, this was a big mistake and after only booting into the OS a couple of time it developed a problem with the memtest function and I had to return it, being sick of ASUS at this point I went with a recommended UD7.

Current Situation:
Nothing... that is to say when i boot the computer nothing is displayed on my screen.

I've tried breadboarding it and I get a couple of errors when booting,

Just CPU: 29, also note that the fan doesn't spin up quickly and my current thinking is it doesn't like the CPU.
With RAM: 89 (I think) and this is with 1 and three DIMMS in, yes I have mixed and matched and am confident it's not the RAM.
With GPU 89, And again, no output.

Spec:
CPU - Core i7 980x
GPU - ATI Radeon 5970 xfx
RAM - Tripple Channel Corsair 1600
Mobo - UD7
CPU Cooler - Fenrir

Current thinking:
I bought the board thinking that it would have the latest BIOS firmware on it, I believe 980x compatability was included in firmware 3, could it be that the no-display, no post and unhelpfull error codes are caused because it is an old revision?

If so then, ow, my pride.

Any help greatly appreciated and I don't intend to sleep until I've solved this.