Confirm the outlet or surge suppressor has power - where your plugging in your PC
 
If it is the GPU, then just removing it could allow some power to flow to the MB (if PSU is shutting down for safety reasons)
 
 

So I put the power supply jumper tool thing on the 24 pin cable after I removed it from the motherboard, plugged in the power cable, flipped the switch and then hit the power up button..and it sprang back to life. 
 
I have a 1 month old 2080 Super in my desktop rig I can swap to this unit or the old 1080 FTW that came out of that old desktop rig. 
 
Is that the next thing to try? 
 
Again my thanks to you guys as I've never had anything like this before so I'm sorry for the noobish questions. 

I'd test with an old GPU .... again, if your remove the existing GPU ... you can test if PC starts to POST ...this would point directly to the removed GPU
 
cause if your MB or other item has a short ... no reason to put the another GPU at risk

well it isn't the power supply or the gpu..I tried the 1080 and it did the same thing as before and won't post. Guessing that leaves me with a motherboard failure. 

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well it isn't the power supply or the gpu..I tried the 1080 and it did the same thing as before and won't post. Guessing that leaves me with a motherboard failure. 

Not exactly. It could be a cpu problem.
 

good point. thanks.

I'd try removing the cpu, and then see if the board will start and get stuck on a no cpu post code.

Same thing here. Had an 850 P2 that just started flipping off randomly - had a spare 850 GA - worked fine. Same cables.