Asus h81m-e Motherboard's BIOS broken?

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Connor_9

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While the BIOS was loading I accidentally shut off my computer's power supply. Now, instead of loading the BIOS properly and proceeding to boot, the second I switch the power supply to the on state all the fans immediately start without my pressing the power button and the computer fails to post. No crazy flashing error screens, there is just a blank screen. Stranger still the "Standby Power LED", which typically indicates when there is power being supplied to the motherboard fails to light. This would lead to one believing my power supply, one renowned for faulty capacitors, might be at fault, yet because all the fans start I must draw the conclusion that my power supply is not at fault.

So, did shutting off my PSU while the BIOS was loading ruin my MOBO? Has anyone heard of this happening? Does anyone know of a way to fix an Asus BIOS that was messed up this way?

Here are my computer's specifications:

CPU: Intel Pentium g3258@4.3 ghz (stock cooler)
GPU: ZOTAC GTX 950 (Not the AMP! edition)
Motherboard: Asus h81m-e motherboard
RAM: 4GB stick of ddr3@1333mhz
Storage: Kingston SSDnow 128GB
PSU: Corsair CX 430 (I am aware it is bad )

I am running ubuntu 14.04 with the liquorix kernel in case that is useful. I am willing to buy another Asus h81m-e motherboard, as they are relatively inexpensive, but would really prefer to be able to fix my current one.

Thank you

 
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Connor_9

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First off, thank you to anyone who looked into solving this for me.
Today I discovered the root of the problem which was my own stupidity. When I first built my computer the cable which powered the motherboard never latched into place properly (probably because my power supply is a cheap piece of crap), even after supplying extreme force which flexed my motherboard to the point I feared I would damage it. I had stupidly forgotten this. I thought that it was odd that my motherboard showed no signs of life while the rest of my components seemed to function normally so I decided to check the motherboard power cable and discovered the root of my problem. My accidentally getting my foot caught on the wire and unplugging it from the computer while the BIOS was loading probably just jostled my computer to the point that the motherboard cable fell out. So there we go: "correlation does not imply causation."
 
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