Trouble with burning components

[MKM]

A few weeks ago the capacitors of my power supply exploded while I was using my computer so I sent it in and had it repaired. Now, I get it back and as I start up my PC with only CPU, RAM, mainboard, PSU and GPU installed the first thing that happens is that something on my GPU starts smoking and glowing brightly so I turn the thing off.

Is it possible that the PSU messed up my mainboard somehow when it exploded so that the mainboard will now fry any video card you install or might it have been so that the video card was damaged before and not the mainboard? When I power up the system without GPU it seems to be working fine, although I can't say for sure as I can't see nothing without a GPU. What do you think, should I spend a 40$ on a 8400GS as I'm only gonna use this system as a server, or will it be fried?

Forgot to mention the specs duh, EDIT:
ASUS P5LD2
HIS X800XL
P4 630
Antec TruePower 2.0 480 watt
2x512mb Corsair pc4300

[jimmyz]

I would rma the board and try with new one. also are you positive you are hooking up the power cords properly? also you could try a pci video card and see if it works.

[MKM]

The cords I plugged in are the 12v ATX 4-pin and the main power 24 pin one as I don't have any HDD or opical drives installed. I'm not sure wether I could RMA it as it's 2 years old and maybe they won't even accept it, I'm also pretty sick of RMA at this point as I've been waiting for my main ASUS Blitz P35 for 2 months now. But yeah, maybe I should try finding some cheap video card for those old PCI slots.

[jimmyz]

yeah i would hit the small mom and pop pc store near you, they usually have some pci cards for cheap. too bad you don't live in the U.S. http://www.motherboardpro.com/
these guys stock used and refurbished boards and are absolutely awesome with customer service.