This gets stranger and stranger. I had some time this evening and took a chance with additional troubleshooting since I'm pretty dead in the water otherwise. The board powers up fine when A,C,D PCI-E are plugged in, but B is what causes the issue. I see nothing wrong with that connection.
If I try to get the board to hash in this state - I am not sure this is possible - I get the Operation status 20 error and it continuously re-detects the board. I have not touched anything to do with firmware and since it doesn't seem to be helping the others with that problem and I'm not going to try yet. I am wondering if it is complaining because that one isn't powered up and if it is possible to disable a chip. I'm not even sure if things are set up that way - just hoping for some kind of way to get it partially alive again.
Thanks for any help.