Antec 920 burst/leaked, looking for additional ways to troubleshoot my motherboard.

So as the title says, my antec seems to have leaked everywhere(!) in my system. All over the back of the motherboard there is a weird white substance that is almost impossible to get off with rubbing alcohol and q-tips, but I don't know if it's just flux left over from manufacture (prolly not, 'm hoping)....

So... I'm going to pretend that the LCS didn't spray water/coolant everywhere and cause some sort of short. How do I go about troubleshooting my motherboard to make sure it's really dead?

When I turn attempt to turn on the system, the antec head unit gives me a red/or white flash then nothing happens. The PSU clicks like it's about to turn on, the fans on my GPU start to move (but don't) and nothing happens. I've taken everything apart and re-seated all connections (except the 920). The PSU functions fine in another system (Tried it on my "To Be A NAS " rig, and tried that rig's PSU on my system)

I haven't reseated the 920 because I don't have any TIM to put it back with, only the stock intel heatsink to use until I get another 920(hopefully, antec is still closed) and MB (again, hopefully from antec)

There is also a large volume of air in the 920's radiator (I don't remember it being there when I installed but it would awesome to confirm), along with that red light, and when plugged into the PSU/MB (CPU_FAN1) nothing happens.

So do you guys think this would just be the MB detecting a fault with the antec and not turning on?

(This is me basically hoping that I wont be out of a rig for however long and that I could just slap on my stock heatsink and get-er going)

Has anyone ever had experience with an antec 920 leaking and destroying hardware and how antec treated this situation and you?

I can't find anything via google, all that comes back is reviews and other non-relevant junk.

It was quiet, first system build, wont trust them anymore, that's for sure.

I'm not even sure if putting the stock heat sink back on because nothing happens when I try to boot it, would the antec prevent any booting (so it would boot with the stock HS but not the antec), and I don't have any extra TIM (nor money to buy) to just find out the hardway.

I will try tonight, the stock HS still has the TIM that intel put on it out of the factory, should I worry about that?

No modding or abused in any way. Got it set-up in the case, and forgot about it (preventative (dusting)maintenance weekend was this past weekend, ironically).

Micro Center is 2 hours away, so It's a little more than chump change .

They open in 15 minutes or so. Companies customer support is only open 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, and on PST (I'm on EST) no less!

Did they replace the monetary value of the system or send him parts?

I don't want to be out of a system for months *cry
Edited by Nocturin - 6/11/12 at 8:51am

Yea, my wife was home with the system and I wasn't able do anything because she said that it just went off, she kept trying to turn it on and on and on and on...

Did that film come from the cooler for sure? I've got it on my GPU's PCB, all over the front and back of my MB, so that's what I'm thinking it is, from the antec.