Miracle, or should I slap myself now?

[GuardianAsher]

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my computer basically frying. Epox EP-8RDA3+ Pro motherboard hit the can. As outlined here: R.I.P. My Computer

Thanks to my good friend Qui, I was able to steal a DFI LanParty KT400A and get the thing back up and running, but to tell the truth, the VIA KT400A chipset can not compare to the nForce 2 Ultra 400Gb chipset in the Epox.

Well, I recently had surgery, so I'm pretty much under house arrest, as it were, living in front of my monitor. I decided to dig through my old closet full of computer parts, and there I saw my "dead" Epox board, covered in the Texas dust. I sighed as I remembered the wonderful performance I got out of it, and went back to sorting. I came across an old 250W PSU that I pulled from a client's computer, and set it on the shelf beside the Epox, then I came across an old Duron 750MHz I didn't even know I had. I didn't want it to get damaged, so I put it in the Epox for safe keeping. More cleaning turned up a 256MB stick of DDR266 RAM, and a SocketA/370 HSF assembly. At this point, I was like, hell, why not, and carried the combination over to my desk. After a small assembly, I plugged the PSU into the motherboard, plugged into the wall, and shorted the power pins. Low-and-behold, it booted.

WHATTHEHELL?!?!?!

I still can't figure out how it even works. I thoroughly tested it when I thought it had died, and I got nothing. NOTHING! Now it works perfectly. How in the hell could this have happened?

[Shadow250]

i had an msi board do that, but it had bad caps by the agp slot and would quit if i worked it too hard. was fine browsing the net but i fire up a game it would go for about 15 mins then poof gone again.

[GuardianAsher]

Well, after a sleepless night, I've reassembled the entire... _ENTIRE_ computer, and it's running like a champ. Better than before, actually...

[Qui Gon-Jinn]

so.. when do I get my mobo back???

and are you going to be able to lan sat?? you know the time.. the place.. and the fun!