Sudden death? o.O

[frozenskipper]

A few weeks back, i randomly encountered this major issue with my desktop. One night, just like any other, i turned my PC off via the windows start meny shut down, and went to bed. The day after, feeling tired from school, i hit the power switch as i usually do, and went to the bathroom to let her go through the bios screens and fire up. When i came back though, nothing had happened. So i hit the power switch again. Still, nothing. I have tried booting her with my graphics cards in different slots, pulled out all the ram and seated a single stick once in every slot. I tried no hard drives, and no peripherals, and even reseating the leads to the power switch. Still nothing happens when i hit it. I also tried a different PSU, as i had one laying around. I am completely at a loss here.. It seems it can only be the motherboard that has crapped out on me (but there are no odd lights that would indicate so), or the i5. Keep in mind that this rig ran strong for one and a half years before this.

[ERSCreeper]

My old Gigabyte board died just like this, everything else lived. Best thing you can do is find someone with a spare board to test everything else on it and then (if the board is dead) replace it or RMA it if you can. Good luck :)

[hiyayhi]

Seems like the motherboard to me, a friend had an Asrock extreme 4 Z68 motherboard do that and kill his machine, I hope your's isn't dead.

Good luck.

[mgsstar]

It could be possibly that your motherboard failed. You could try doing a CMOS reset to reset all the bios settings to see if it boots up.

[orangecat]

Maby bad ram or bad ram settings? try clearing the bios and reseating the connectors. or maby u just have a dead board that woud suck. ALSO look for any possibility that the board is shorting or there was static dischange to the computer that woud have fried the entire system.