P4P800 E deluxe s478 on fire!

So I was having an issue with my computer not posting. Originally I found that my antec power supply had crapped out as the little green light on the mobo was not coming on when it was all hooked up. I tested the psu on another mobo same thing little green light didn't come on. That's fine went out and bought a bit better psu for cheap as this older hardware doesn't require much. Hooked everything up, green light was on and went to push the button and BAM! nothing happened. Ok, fine. I rip everything apart have the mobo on a wooden floor try and post with only the cpu and fan attached to the mobo and the necessary power connectors, nothing (although the cpu fan twitched but that was it). Take off the oem intel heatsink and fan and find that the cpu is attached to the heatsink, caked on by the stock thermalpaste that comes with the heatsink, this is the first time the chip has been pulled since initial build. Anyways went try and post the mobo without anything on it just to see if I would get a beep code and the little resistors or metal chunks in the middle of the socket area started smoking and caught on fire! I'm just wondering if the mobo did this because there was a short somewhere or because it was on the wooden floor or because the cpu was out. Needless to say I'm going to try and get another mobo, hopefully the chip is still good, esthictically it still looks functional. Thanks in advance if anyone can explain this.

I am assuming the oe heatsink and no apfc... ?

reverse cooling, like original atx standard, is a good idea for prescotts and afterwards. Not many ablige. not many care. it is a mad max world of computing. just let the 57 fan system fly with the purty lights. Who cares. go get the 12000 watt quadruple evs 12v. don't need it? who cares.

I run a prescott. 3.4e, the 130w D0 version...approaching 24000 hours runtime this month with 73% uptime....
it looks like the day I built it....simply atx standard. Who cares ...

I don't.

You do know this is an English language forum, right?