Testing a fried motherboard, LGA 1155

[g00dking]

Was trying to install a new blu-ray writer last night and I think I shocked my motherboard; in my excitement I realized that I forgot to attach my anti-static wrist strap. All of the lights show up on the motherboard (memeok, and two other lights), all of the peripherals start up, the optical drives engage, but no signal outputs to the monitor. I've tried the output from both the graphics card and directly from the motherboard, no luck. This is my build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NRY3P6

I'm trying to decide what to do next; what more can I do to troubleshoot? (Like getting a multi-meter? Is there a good guide for that?) Should I take it to my local Micro Center to diagnose? Should I buy a new motherboard? If so, what if the CPU is also fried? Is there a way to test for that? How do I connect a speaker to this motherboard to test?

I'd rather not buy a whole dang new computer, though this one is four years old now.

Thanks for your help!

 

[getochkn]

Multimeters not going to help much. What I would do is remove both sticks of ram, and put 1 back in. I would also remove the GPU, pull the power and CMOS battery, wait 10 minutes, then power back on with the battery back in and the onboard graphics.

I've the odd board that doesn't like to switch between onboard and gpu without resetting the CMOS, 50% of the time. lol.

You might have just knocked something a bit loose though.

 

[g00dking]

Multimeters not going to help much. What I would do is remove both sticks of ram, and put 1 back in. I would also remove the GPU, pull the power and CMOS battery, wait 10 minutes, then power back on with the battery back in and the onboard graphics.

I've the odd board that doesn't like to switch between onboard and gpu without resetting the CMOS, 50% of the time. lol.

You might have just knocked something a bit loose though.

Thanks for your suggestions! So, I removed both RAM sticks and the graphics card, then put one stick of RAM back in, and it booted up into the BIOS. Success! Then I put both RAM sticks back and the graphics card: no boot. Then I just removed the graphics card, and it booted again. Does that mean my graphics card somehow went bad? I also used canned air, I'd be surprised if that had a negative affect but some of it did leak out of the can onto my system.