Well - had a little trouble with the ASUS board. Had it all installed and loading Windows and then she died and would not start up again on Friday. Let it sit because I was pissed all day Saturday and I had household/kid things to take care of. Today I had time and took it back out to the garage and messed around slowly unplugging and removing parts to see if I couldn't figure out what was going on. This ASUS board has lights on when it is not on and they worked. If I held down the power button, it would turn on and then stop, turn on and then stop.
Pulled the GPU and the M.2 drive and unplugged all else that wasn't necessary. Couldn't get it to work. The M.2 drive sits underneath the heatsink thingy near the bottom of the board and while I had it off to remove the M.2 drive, I had access to the battery. So I removed it and pushed the power button and wouldn't you know the damn thing came alive. I put the battery back in and tried again and it still worked. Plugged/put everything back in and she has been running fine since. Strange things...