Possible dead mobo/CPU

Nerdfighter

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I think either my motherboard and/or my CPU has failed. I was playing Borderlands 2 one minute, quit the game and left the computer for a couple of minutes, when I came back, the computer was off and CPU-led was red. Furthermore, all the fans getting power from the motherboard weren't spinning, but the ones hooked up to the PSU were still running. The fans on the GPU-cooler were also running. I find this weird, since my rig is very new (built in January 2014), and I have not done anything crazy at all: my CPU voltage is running a tad bit over stock, and I haven't touched my GPU's voltage, just maxed the power limit out (+20%).

What I've done thus far is remove and put back the CMOS battery, re-install both GPU and CPU + cooler. Nothing happens, no beep. I don't really have any chance to swap parts to troubleshoot. Would really appreciate any help.

Parts used in the rig:

AMD FX-8320
ASUS M5A97 Evo R2.0
8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600MHz
Club3D R9 280X
Corsair CX600M
CM Hyper 212 Evo
Kingston 120GB SSD
WD Blue 1TB
 
Try Pulling out one of the sticks of ram and try booting it again ive had no end of problems with that mobo and those Ballistix Sport sticks sometimes the computer will boot with no screen and a red light on the mobo still on.

Now i have to have the sticks running in single channel mode for it to boot everytime and there is nuthing wrong with the sticks ive run memtest on them for hours.
 
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Try Pulling out one of the sticks of ram and try booting it again ive had no end of problems with that mobo and those Ballistix Sport sticks sometimes the computer will boot with no screen and a red light on the mobo still on.

Now i have to have the sticks running in single channel mode for it to boot everytime and there is nuthing wrong with the sticks ive run memtest on them for hours.

Tried that, no avail. I'd guess it's the mobo, but I'll have to try to troubleshoot with whatever non existent resources I have and try to figure something out. If only I could get my hands on another working AM3+ CPU...
 
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