Everything was going good. But, I saw that this process would likely take several days, and I had the hard drive sitting on the floor, hanging out of the tower... I didn't want to leave it like this for however long it was going to take, so I attempted to move it back into the case, but accidentally shorted the HDD with the metal carrier it was supposed to be sitting in. The screen went black, and now I can't get it to do anything. The fans and LEDs turn on, but that's it. No video at all. The hard drive seems okay; I was able to put it into another computer of mine, and it's running HDD Regenerator again just like it was before, so I should be able to recover the data on it. But, the mobo seems screwed. Within a few seconds of booting up, the mobo's southbridge gets hot-to-the-touch (burn your fingers hot)... In my experience, when a chip gets THAT hot THAT fast, it means it's effed.
Any suggestions? Seems hopeless to me, but I figured I'd ask anyway. Do you think the fry-age would have spread to anything else?
Meaning, do you think I could just get a new mobo for it and have everything else be okay (CPU, RAM, expansion cards, etc)?