been talking with the op last night about the above issue and so far has done the follwoing
removed everything from the motherbard and still no power on though mobo led was on indicating the board was getting some kind of power, next installed their 5950x and stil no power on, then installed the ram 1 stick at a time and in slots 2 and 4 but still no joy (mobo led was on throughout the above steps but again no power up), at this point we stopped and came to the conclusion that the motherboard is a dud, the op said the quality of the board isnt great as the m.2 standoff keeps falling out, but that was earlier before we tried the above steps.
note to op as above check over your board carefully for any metal flakes or washers that may be causing a short, if you find nothing then the board is at fault