i dont think that it fried from the power surge b/c it would boot up before i took it out of the case. but then i noticed that one of the corners of the socket for the cpu heatsink/fan was loose, so i tried to push it back in to no avail. so then i placed it back into the case, and now it wont boot.
Before taking it out, i was testing my friend's old agp video card on my mobo. With this new video card, there was no output on my very old crappy monitor, but the computer did boot up. One strange thing is that i could not shut down the computer with the power switch anymore so i had to shut it off by turning off the power surge. After booting it up again, the comp would sporadically reboot itself whenever. So i took out the agp video card and put back my old pci card. The comp then returned back to normal with monitor output. so i thought all this was weird and retried the agp video card by replacing the pci again. and the same thing happened so i took out the mobo out, not knowing what i could do. and this is where i started on the first paragraph.
