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Only the foolish attempt such folly.
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
I'm personally responsible for all global warming
Also, I didn't attach any motherboard standoffs. So yeah, after discovering what they are and what they do, it's possible that I've shorted the motherboard. I seriously hope not.
Many lessons learn here. Like @digitalscream said, I'll be taking more precautions buying used in the future, along with being more careful in overall assembly and doing stuff I don't fully understand.
Will update the fault / diagnosis in the coming days.
They're quite long, but very comprehensive.
And honestly, if you get it working, you'll never look back. I remember building my first one back in 2001, when my uncle couldn't afford a pre-built. The thing that held us up was that you needed to format the HDD with a floppy disk back then and it was the one thing that didn't get a mention in the 'How to Build a PC' article that I read in Micro Mart. Someone on the customer care lines for one of the retailers from whom we'd bought parts talked us through it and 'hey presto'! Since then I've built tons of the things. You'll get there. Even if this winds up being a repair shop job, you'll know for the future.
Some parts of the board like the serial bus are protected by soft fuses ... if a shorts detected like a bad USB device has shorted the 5V rail to ground then it will turn off the power until the system has been reset in the manner above. Other parts of the board like the card slots also have protection.
You might be lucky, there's been many a machine come into the shop I do the repairs for where the customer has shorted the board out on the build, it's very common so the first thing I always do is take the board out first. There's only been a few fatal ones I can remember, most of the time I rebuild it, reset the board and it's running again.
You might be lucky if you put the standoffs in.
Fingers crossed for you mate.
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
I'm personally responsible for all global warming
On a lot of devices, like a harddrive or laptop or PC board one of the first things that tends to fail short circuit is the cap they install as general house keeping, to take off any ripple that might be picked up or caused by the power cable. Nine times out of ten just removing that cap and not replacing it works out fine.
I've seen similar symptoms to those described in HP Z-series workstations when the PSU goes out to lunch.