A few days ago, I began experiencing the blue screen of death every time I attempted to launch windows on my desktop PC. After the windows logo had flashed for a few seconds on start-up, the blue screen would flash once, very quickly, before the computer crashed. I tried various software fixes, attempting a system repair and a system restoration, all of which failed. Having exhausted these options, I decided to try removing and reinstalling my RAM (two 4gb GSkill Ripjaws X sticks) after seeing someone on this forum recommend doing so. However, when I attempted to boot the computer after doing so, my motherboard (an ASRock p67 Extreme4 Gen3) broke into flames just to the right of the rightmost RAM slot (in which I had one of my two sticks of RAM installed), almost halfway up the slot. 1) What likely caused this and 2) if the very brief fire remained contained to this very small spot, which other components might I hope to salvage? The only visible damage is to the motherboard itself.