CPU or RAM Destroyed?

[1C3]

Hello everyone,

 

A few days ago, my computer shut off randomly and wouldn't turn back on. Eventually it turned on and one of the capasitors on my motherboard blew and my PSU started smoking. I have since RMA'd both and got replacements. I then fitted the replacements and turned it on. All of the fans turned on; including case fans, GPU fans and CPU fans, indicating that there was power to the board. However, there was no power to the rear i/o (my keyboard and mouse didn't light up, and there was no picture coming from both the VGA port on my motherboard and the HDMI and VGA on my GPU. I was certain that the CPU had failed me until I found out that RAM failure can produce the same symptoms. I do not have the recources to try the RAM nor CPU in another PC as the only other PC I have is a 2001 Dell.

 

By what you can see here, do you think the problem is with the RAM or the CPU, or both? Thanks for you replies, my build is listed below:

AMD FX: 8320

Asus GTX 750

$60 MSI Motherboard (I am uncertain of the name)

Corsair CX-500M

Corair Vengance RAM 8GB (2*4GB, both sticks don't work)

WD 1TB HDD

Generic Mid-Tower Case

[APasz]

Normally if there is a problem with the cpu a audible alert is given during bios boot, of course this isn;t always the case.

Test your ram in another system to see if it works. If it does, check cpu if possible.