Hmmm.. ok - what firmware repository have you taken the firmware from ? Mine, Solidoodles, Lawsys, ErikZalms ?
Mine and Lawsys (which are one in the same these days) have worked fine out-of-the-box for RAMPS 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4. All you need to do is set the motherboard_type to == 33 or 34 depending on what config you want, and thats it - this is based on the number of people I know who have deployed the software from my repository onto RAMPS (and Sang's) on both Solidoodles and Non-Solidoodles... I've also used EirkZalms raw version (aka, mainline Marlin_V1) on about 1/2 dozen other printers again with out nary an issue...
Basically, there is nothing in software outside of the low-temp tests that will prevent your extruder heating - theres just no code there that gets involved in that. The only test is to ensure that the thermistor is NOT in MinTemp state or above MaxTemp state - both of which are fairly obvious as your extruder will be reporting <5° or >225°... If your Extruder is reporting the correct tempreature, then thats it - theres no other code involved here.
Download the firmware from https://github.com/ozadr1an/Solidoodle- … in_v1_beta and I can assure you there is 100% nothing there to prevent the extruder turning on outside the parameters I've outlined above... Ext0 is on D9, Ext1 is on D10 under 34, and Ext0 is on D9 and Fan is on D10 under 33.
I believe you'll end up back at poking around your hardware... because assuming you haven't just ignored the temperature reported to date and we discover you dont have the thermistor hooked in - there just isn't anything else in the firmware to prevent it...
The only other thing I can suggest is - Go back and make sure you've followed the steps in http://www.soliforum.com/topic/2816/how … ontroller/ or http://www.soliforum.com/topic/303/ramp … olidoodle/ - both of which are succesful examples of RAMPS conversion and have been followed successfully by quite a few others.
Failing that - you have a faulty RAMPS board...