PC Forcefully turned off mid-game and wont turn back on

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belalaliuk

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GTX 960 4GB
I5 4690K
16GB HYPER X FURY
Gigabyte motherboard ( I forgot name i will update)
EVGA G5 550W SUPERNOVA

So I was playing arma 3, and then my computer forcefully turns off, I did not smell anything burning, So I went to my computer and went to turn it on and it did not work. I am not sure of what to do!
 
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Unplug the PC. Let it sit at least 3 mins. Plug it back in. See if it starts now. (This forces a reset of the MB BIOS code that looks to see if the power button has been pressed. The actual power button does almost nothing, it is an intermittent switch, not an actual power on/off). If it does not start plug something else into the wall to make sure that the outlet is good.

Assuming the unplug cycle does not help you follow the steps in the sticky about "what to do if the PC won't post". Basically you remove components one at a time until the PC starts up, then you add components back in until it stops working then you look really hard at the last component you plugged in. If you remove all components except PSU, CPU and MB...
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Unplug the PC. Let it sit at least 3 mins. Plug it back in. See if it starts now. (This forces a reset of the MB BIOS code that looks to see if the power button has been pressed. The actual power button does almost nothing, it is an intermittent switch, not an actual power on/off). If it does not start plug something else into the wall to make sure that the outlet is good.

Assuming the unplug cycle does not help you follow the steps in the sticky about "what to do if the PC won't post". Basically you remove components one at a time until the PC starts up, then you add components back in until it stops working then you look really hard at the last component you plugged in. If you remove all components except PSU, CPU and MB and the PC still won't start its power on self test then you have to guess -- swap PSU, if that doesn't help swap MB. It's almost never the CPU unless you've been OC'ing with voltage.
 
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