Computer died, was it my MoBo?

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foxtrot

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So...I was just starting to play UT2004 when my video freezed for a second and then my monitor just went to black. 2 or 3 seconds after that my audio also died but my pc was still running. I thought it would be ok if i just restarted my pc but it won't really start up. Like, it seems that hardware is ok: vents start up, my monitor still works, the light-thing-that-says the-processor-is-working, my gpu, temperatures are fine too so they probably are not the problem, but my monitor doesn't start up to receive data from the computer, which is probably not even displaying BIOS nor the loading windows screen, because my keyboard also won't start its backlight so it feels that the only thing that could fail is the Motherboard or the RAM.
MoBo is a MSI Z97 PC MATE.
RAM are two HyperX Fury 8GB DDR3.
So you now know i'm clueless. Would it make sense for the motherboard software to die but still be able to start up the other components? What should i do?

So...I was just starting to play UT2004 when my video freezed for a second and then my monitor just went to black. 2 or 3 seconds after that my audio also died but my pc was still running. I thought it would be ok if i just restarted my pc but it won't [i]really[/i] start up. Like, it seems that hardware is ok: vents start up, my monitor still works, the light-thing-that-says the-processor-is-working, my gpu, temperatures are fine too so they probably are not the problem, but my monitor doesn't start up to receive data from the computer, which is probably not even displaying BIOS nor the loading windows screen, because my keyboard also won't start its backlight so it feels that the only thing that could fail is the Motherboard or the RAM.
MoBo is a MSI Z97 PC MATE.
RAM are two HyperX Fury 8GB DDR3.
So you now know i'm clueless. Would it make sense for the motherboard software to die but still be able to start up the other components? What should i do?

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blackdiamondbr0

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Well, if it was the RAM, you could pull one stick at a time to find out if one of them went bad. I highly doubt your RAM is causing that issue. Sounds like MB to me.

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foxtrot

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blackdiamondbr0Well, if it was the RAM, you could pull one stick at a time to find out if one of them went bad.

Indeed it was that, i got it to turn on after somebody else also told me it was a RAM problem. You know i doubted it was the RAM too but if you look at the symptoms it makes a lot of sense. Thanks man.

[quote=blackdiamondbr0]Well, if it was the RAM, you could pull one stick at a time to find out if one of them went bad.[/quote]

Indeed it was that, i got it to turn on after somebody else also told me it was a RAM problem. You know i doubted it was the RAM too but if you look at the symptoms it makes a lot of sense. Thanks man.