PSA: Protect your surge!

[SamIAm]

I'm no dummy; my computer is plugged into a fancy UPS strip. However, at some point I must have needed to extend the range of that mess of cables under my desk, and I used a cheap powerstrip as extension. A couple weeks ago, my foot tapped that red button and turned-off every device on the strip. Then my computer wouldn't turn back on. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Turns out I killed my fancy silent powersupply. I bought a new one, and the computer still won't turn on. More precisely, the power supply has two connections (pictured below). When I plug both connections into the mobo, the machine's dead to the world. When I plug that long one in but not the short one, all the fans spin up and and the lights turn on. This probably means that the mother board is fried, right?



Is this definitely the mobo, and not the processor? Is it both? I can but a new motherboard, but it'd be silly to buy a board that worked with my old processor, only to find that the old processor is dead. On the other hand, it'd be silly to just assume that the processor is busted. Whatcha think? If a motherboard goes, what are my chances of saving the other components, like RAM and Harddrives and stuff?
-Sam