Help with new build

[T0pth4t]

I'm upgrading an old computer and here is my question I mounted the motherboard in my case and saw smoke coming from it...I knew the motherboard was fried but could it have killed my other components like ram, video card, etc...Because since I've got a new motherboard and it still wont POST...also I noticed a very small amount of thermal paste(Arctic silver) on one of the pins on the CPU could this be causing the problem...I've tried several different graphics cards/RAM/PSUs so I think I can rule them out...any help is much appreciated

 

[Rahburt-33]

well i guess what you could do is try the hardware that you are not sure about as to if it still works and try it on some crappy mobo, like try the stuff that seemed more likely to have survived first (graphics card unless it was plugged into psu, cd drive, hard drives, and then try the more stuff that could have been severely damaged , like cpu and ram)

lol my main hdd almost failed yesterday (in fact it did, but seagates sea tools kinda fixed it), so im in a bad situation to right now

 

[tiraides]

Use a different motherboard (if you can) to try the other parts out. Since everything connects to the motherboard, it may have done damage to some (if not all) of your parts.