So, my PC died a week ago right on time for my birthday, which was yesterday.
At first, I thought it was the GPU as my motherboard LEDs led me to think, so I thought it'd be a good opportunity to upgrade it as it was a RTX 2060 that was showing its age.

So I waited 7 days to get it, with some delay in the delivery to my dismay.
I plugged it in, all excited and... nothing. Screen stays black and mobo LED still tells me there is a VGA problem.

With some great help by  tnargraef, it turned out the most likely case was instead the mobo dying.
So I had to replace it,

BUT

my mobo was old too, and using DDR4 RAM sticks and AM4 CPU, which were no longer up-to-date in this year 2025.

So I had a choice: either dismantle my mobo, CPU and RAM just to re-install an older out-of-date mobo.

OR

Take the opportunity to update everything so it wouldn't just delay the inevitable, but it would be much more expensive.


In the end, I chose upgrading everything to be safe for at least 5 more years. Mobo, CPU, RAM to go with the new GPU.

Almost $1000 just because the motherboard decided to die at the wrong time. Gotta say I'm QUITE a bit salty. And I still have to wait until at least Saturday to get everything to start rebuild. So, for now, I'm on my laptop.

What a hell of a birthday... I'm so fucking done for the whole week and the previous one.

EDIT: ARGH, I forgot about the CPU ventirad, too! Mine isn't compatible with the more recent CPU socket!