No startup multiple chimes then nothing

Yesterday my Mac Pro froze. The screen then got a strange checkerboard pattern of grey and red. I held down the power button to turn it off. I then tried to restart it. Power goes on and it makes 5 startup chimes. No video comes on. Computer seems to pause and stop sending power over to the monitor. Then it tries again with five more startup chimes. Still nothing. It just does this over and over until I shut it off by holding down the power key. What's happened?

I took it to Apple. The sad news is that it has a dead processor and a dead RAM riser card. It's going to cost $900 to repair. They're "hoping" that that is all that is wrong. I'm afraid this is all my fault. In the three years I've owned it, I never cleaned the inside of it. When the Apple guy opened the case it was caked with mountains of dust. Very embarrassing and I think quite possibly deadly.

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