Ok. Basically I initially assembled the entire system and had the first problem where I was getting no power at all. Then, based on your comment I went looking for any short by removing all the components from the case to make sure there was nothing missing. With the motherboard removed from the case and just the CPU installed I checked to see if I could get power to the motherboard and I did get the LED's to light and the cpu fan to start, but it just cycled on an off at this point about every 4 to 5 seconds. Does this indicate that the problem is either with the motherboard, PSU or CPU?