This imgur album has four photos of the pins I took to when I was trying to inspect them. I re-seated the CPU, same results as previous with the different configurations with ram.
my second step was to re-seat the CPU and check the pins, I took multiple photos of the pins and visually inspected the socket to the best of my visual ability and couldn't see any bent pins, honestly if one was missing I would never know though they're so small and I don't know how many and where I should expect the pins to be. My first method to trouble shoot was of course to swap the sticks from 1-3 that I knew posted previous with the other sticks and boot with a 1-3 configuration with the sticks of ram that were originally 7-5, posted fine again.
and ended up isolating it to an issue with 5-6-7-8 ram slots. But just received a brand new x99 classified this past week, finally was able to boot it up for the first time, and got a series of error codes, after systematically removing devices from the system until I isolated it to be an issue with the memory (not the ram itself) I finally verified there is an issue with ram slots 7-5 8-6 or a portion of the CPU's memory controller (highly doubt)? I can post up until 'no video card detected' (expected) if I only have two sticks of ram in slots 1-3, or four sticks in a 1-2-3-4 configuration. I'm posting three videos, mainly so I can refer back to this thread when i contact tech support.
