I think I've fried my motherboard, lol

[sodaman420]

Yeah, so I was measuring around the motherboard with a metal tape measure, to see what kind of replacement fan would fit in over the north bridge (damn thing is so noisy) and when I went back to my screen, the whole computer was locked up. I tried restarting, but I only got a blank screen. I'm pretty sure I've managed to create a short with the metal tape measure, and mess up my motherboard permanently. The only thing is, that when I power on, all the LED fans and lights go on, as well as the light for system power and RAM. Could it still be a dead motherboard? Please advise.
My system specs are as follows:
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D motherboard
AMD 939 4400+ CPU 2.2 GHZ x 2
2 GB OCZ platinum Ram
EVGA 7800 GTX

Thanks,
-Tony

 

[darkguset]

Yeah, so I was measuring around the motherboard with a metal tape measure, to see what kind of replacement fan would fit in over the north bridge (damn thing is so noisy) and when I went back to my screen, the whole computer was locked up. I tried restarting, but I only got a blank screen. I'm pretty sure I've managed to create a short with the metal tape measure, and mess up my motherboard permanently. The only thing is, that when I power on, all the LED fans and lights go on, as well as the light for system power and RAM. Could it still be a dead motherboard? Please advise.
My system specs are as follows:
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D motherboard
AMD 939 4400+ CPU 2.2 GHZ x 2
2 GB OCZ platinum Ram
EVGA 7800 GTX

Thanks,
-Tony

Where was the mobo? in the case or outside?
If outside, try resitting all cards and memory.
Also try reseting the CMOS.
Also stop doing stupid things like measuring (!?!) with a metal tape over a switched on motherboard!!!
Why oh why didn't you just switch it off for a sec, take your measurements and switch it back on!?
Oh well, good luck now!