Recently, with the folding@home month and it getting colder, I've been running folding@home at medium on my pc to heat my room. Don't ask :)
Anyways, this morning I woke up to a nice warm room (yay) but to my pc screen looking.... wrong. Everything looked kind of 'fuzzy' (that's the best way I can describe it). Hoping that it wasn't a serious issue, I tried to restart my computer. I got to the motherboard boot screen, but then the display went black (though the power LED on the case stayed on). I waited for a little while, then did a hard shutdown because it didn't seem to be doing anything.
Now, when I press the power button, nothing happens. At all. No lights, no fan spin, no nothing. Not good.
Specs are: MSI z170 pro SLI plus motherboard, evga gtx 1080, 6700k, corsair 850rx psu.
I figure given that I'm getting nothing at the moment the first step will probably be to try a new motherboard, but that brings up a few questions:
- is it worth trying to deal with MSI? I'm not sure if I have any kind of warranty from them for the mb (it's been just over two years since I bought it)
- If I try to buy a new motherboard, will I be able to find new and affordable boards that are compatible with my 6700k? recommendations?
- If I get a new motherboard and I'm still having issues, what is the next step? psu? gpu?
Since it seems primarily MB related I posted it in this section, lmk if this is the right place or not.
Thanks!