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Well, going by what you say, i'm not so positive, but in my opinion, it's leaning that way.
Does your POST screen show that it is detecting the ram/ hard drives?
Mine seemed to take about 2-3 minutes before it detected anything at all, which is wayyy too long and a sign that something was shot.
I just wanted to share the problem I had, which turned out being the motherboard. I'm guessing since it wouldn't go past the POST screen on mine, and the USB wouldn't actually work, that the MB was shot since it wouldn't do anything even when hooked up the new HDD to it( did that before buying the combo, just in case). Also, nothing happened when I had a disc in the dvd drive.It was as if the whole MB was toast and wouldn't see anything that was connected to it.
I would still go through every possibility of combinations to see if anything changes before assuming it's the MB. Mine was just obvious once I had the new HDD.