May have damaged my motherboard.

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Mosskey

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So I'm a first time builder and was assembling my motherboard outside of the case before putting it in to make sure the parts work. I was finally done assembling and all I needed to do was touch the panel power with a screwdriver to start up the very basic's of the computer/POST. Problem was, I touched the wrong panel with the screwdriver and I may have static'd it. After I realized it was the wrong panel, I found the right one and tried to short the pins of the actual power panel, but nothing happened. No POST. I think I may have static'd the motherboard because when I touched the wrong pins I heard a small shock noise and felt it in my hand through the screwdriver. Do I need to get a new motherboard? Or are all the parts on the motherboard at the time shot, too?
 
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Memhorder
That's a bummer! Just get the Motherboard. Re-install everything. If you did fry something else then you'll get an Error message at post time. Most likely just the Motherboard is toast.
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But if it's just the motherboard that is fried, will the computer even post?
 
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