Is my motherboard destroyed?

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Yesterday I tried installing a plug and play PCI express firewire card into my HP H8-1010 PC. When I booted up it recognized the card but said that the drivers were not installed properly. I was advised by the tech support of the card mfg. to perform a Windows 7 update and also to update the firmware on my motherboard bios. I did both and then my PC prompted me to restart to make the changes. After I rebooted I now have no video output at all. There is no video output from the video card DVI (came with the PC) and I also tried the VGA and DVI directly from the motherboard and no output from those either. Firewire card has been removed and I have tried removing the video card as well. I have tried removing the CMOS battery and moving the jumper pins to reset the BIOS to default with no luck. I am out of ideas and very frustrated here. Could the windows or bios update have destroyed my motherboard?
 
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Damn, should have just downloaded the drivers off the internet. If you still aren't getting a signal after removing the graphic card odds are you screwed up somewhere when you flashed the BIOS.
 
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Since it is a plug and play card there were no drivers available. It is supposed to automatically work with Windows drivers upon installation. Anyway that is water under the bridge now.

Assuming the motherboard is ruined can I salvage this PC by buying a new motherboard and re-using all of the existing components?
 
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I was reading that if I replace the motherboard I might have an issue with Windows not recognizing the new one, is that true?

FYI here is the link for the HP bios update I installed (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=5097929#N670). I always thought motherboards had a way of "undoing" the bios back to default, is this not the case? I was not aware doing a bios update could ruin a motherboard. If that is true I'm never doing a bios update again!
 
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It only ruins it if it gets interrupted halfway through or you install the wrong software, and yes, odds are you will need to reinstall windows.

 
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