Motherboard: Asus Z87-A
CPU: i5-4460
RAM: 32GB
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO
GPU: 1050ti
PSU: Thermaltake Smart 700w (non modular)
Computer was working fine. Extremely high humidity and the fact I touched the PSU beforehand excludes the possibility of ESD having shorted the motherboard.
Opened it up, installed my new PCI wifi card. Computer refused to POST. After this, I removed the wifi card, but to no avail. Haunted by the BOOT_DEVICE_LED I tested each RAM slot and stick individually. In the end, I removed all of the RAM, the GPU, the wifi card, and all of the USB devices.
It is worth noting that when this desktop was first acquired, a couple of days ago, of all the 32GB of RAM (4x8GB) only 24GB were being detected, but the DRAM LED never stayed red.
Booting sequence now resembles this...
-DRAM_LED turns red for 1 second and then turns off.
-CPU_LED turns red for 1 second and then turns off.
-VGA_LED turns red for 3 seconds, fans stop spinning, computer reboots and then...
-DRAM_LED turns red for 1 second and then turns off.
-CPU_LED turns red for 1 second and then turns off.
-VGA_LED turns red for 3 seconds and then turns off.
-BOOT_DEVICE_LED turns red and stays that way.
Video related, as it is the actual sequence (apologies for recording in portrait mode like an idiot):
Things I have tried (using the simplest imaginable setup, as per the second paragraph):
-Resat the RAM
-Checked for cables touching the motherboard and shuffling them
-Ensured that all the cables are properly connected
-Tried to use a different SATA connector for the SSD
-Reset the CMOS using the jumper method as per the manual
-After the removal of the GPU and having reset the CMOS, I tried to plug the monitor to the iGPU
-Tried to turn it on with no boot devices