I've been trying to assemble a PC, I decided to test it to see if it would boot up, periphials such as the hd and floppy were disconnected and I plugged it in. Switched on the socket and nothing happened. I tried the same with the ac switch on 230v and got a blue flash, then still nothing (including the power supply fan doesn't spin).
I fear that I may have blown the motherboard (though it was lifted of the case by the supplied spacers).
The video card, cpu and the ram were connected though, would these have been damaged.