took the mini pc to work and ended up looking like this:
So good part, the mobo is working. Bad part is that I think the PSU isn't. Although, when I was putting it all back together I noticed chinese quality control isn't the greatest.. two cables for the power to the SATA drive wasn't connected properly, might have been shorting or causing something when I tried it earlier. So will give it another shot with the car battery over the weekend before I order a new PSU.