This happened. It is a burn. This MSI microATX motherboard has been giving me problems for a while now, and the computer had been spontaneously shutting down on me in the most random moments for at least a few months now.
So today, it does the same thing, only it can not turn back on, like it normally is able to. I open it and find this burn mark near my sound card (I removed it for the picture).
I try to diagnose the problem with no luck; I gave up and tried powering it up again just to see what would happen. It worked fine.
Long story short, something on my motherboard burned, computer stopped working, and now my computer works again.So the motherboard finally quit today, and it turns out that if I sent this in for RMA, it will most likely be rejected because it has a burn.
My computer isn't really anything too fancy, I just need a board to replace
this one. I am not buying another MSI board.
The problem can also be the power supply, but I opened it and saw no form of damage. It's best to assume it's fine and to say it is the board's fault since it burned. If it does turn out to be the power supply, I can just buy another cheap one until I can afford one of a quality brand.