Popped 2 mother boards

Burnman

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Okay so after installing everything except for the graphics card I got to the bios screen. But after installing my graphics card my motherboard popped and had a tiny fire for about 3 seconds right when I turned it on. Then I got a replacement mother board which did the exact same thing except this time it didn't even get to the bios. The capacitor that popped is right above the ram. Of course the pc won't start now... What do you think could be the problem here?

My pc specs are

ASUS GeForce GTX 980 STRIX-GTX980-DC2OC-4GD5 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

XFX TS Series P1-750G-TS3X 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Active PFC Power Supply

SanDisk SSD PLUS 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SDSSDA-240G-G25

CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Desktop Memory Model CMK16GX4M2A2666C16R

WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZRZ

RAZER Blackwidow Chroma RGB Gaming Mechanical Keyboard

RAZER DeathAdder Chroma USB Gaming Mouse

TP-LINK TL-WN881ND Wireless N300 PCI Express Adapter, 300 Mbps, w/ WPS Button, IEEE 802.1b/g/n, 64 / 128 bit WEP, WPA / WPA2, Plug & Play in Windows 10(32 bit & 64 bit)

Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition CO-9050002-WW 120mm

Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler CW-9060025-WW, Black

Boxed Core I7-6700K 4.00 GHz 8M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I76700K

ASUS Z170-A ATX DDR4 Motherboards

NZXT S340 Mid Tower Case CA-S340W-W1 (White

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance

 

Dustybin

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Have you checked the position of the motherboard standoff's in the case? In fact is there anything behind the motherboard that might be causing a short on the board. I have heard of cases where people don't put the standoffs in and screw the motherboard directly to the case as well but I assume you're not doing that.

I think you should probably get the PSU checked out as well, I am not an electrical engineer but something that is actually started a fire isn't good.. even if a 3rd motherboard works perfectly I wouldn't feel happy about leaving it.
 

Burnman

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I'm not exactly sure want you are asking me I did use the standoffs but never screwed in the middle one on the middle row because I couldn't get it to catch on the other side