Hey, I was playing (or trying to play) Crysis 2 a couple days ago when my computer froze. It has since refused to boot, minus a couple times when I was testing RAM configurations. My specs are listed below:

ASUS Striker Extreme II Motherboard, 2x Nvidia 8800 GTS 512 Mb, Q6600 CPU, Self-installed liquid cooling, Rosewill Xtreme RX950-DB PSU, 8GB RAM, 4x2GB.

Here's the interesting thing: My computer case has a few fans on it, and one of the top ones (plugged into upper right of motherboard) doesn't seem to get power now, and the lower left one does not immediately get power, but seems to sputter to life ~20 seconds later. When I was trying to find out whether RAM was the issue (which it first appeared to be), the only 2 successful boots I got were when 1 RAM stick was installed, and ALL the fans began running. This leads me to think that it is either a motherboard issue or a PSU issue, any thoughts/ideas for how to be sure so I don't waste extra money fixing it?

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power supply tester, always a handy tool to have around – Xantec Mar 25 '11 at 1:29
In case you need direction on what to look for in the way of a psu tester, something like this is good: newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16899705003 – MaQleod Mar 25 '11 at 1:35
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If you get nothing on the monitor, you are not making it through the POST, if you have an internal speaker, make note of the beeps, if not, one of these might help: pc-diagnostics.com/pc_diagnostics_tools/… – MaQleod Mar 25 '11 at 1:39
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