So As It Turns Out...

...only the video card was dead.  In retrospect, I should have tested that first, but I'm super surprised that nothing else was dead.

This is Why I Hate Putting Gear on the Floor

The scene:  my "living" room near the computer desk.  The setup:  half a bottle of warm diet coke sitting perilously on the computer desk and a very expensive very fast machine on the floor below.  The action:  bobble the half filled bottle of warm diet coke which, while capped, falls and spews all over the machine.  The aftermath:  one very dead machine.

So now four hours later I've got my data back off of it and the 500GB drive installed in the old machine and lots of stuff backed up.  Nothin' like a tragedy to kick the backup reflex into high gear.  

$%&*!%&*!!!

Could have been worse, I suppose.  The most expensive part (the solid state drive) is still OK but at the very least, it looks like the motherboard and video card are toasted.  The other bad thing is that the CPU and the power supply may also be toasted but it's harder for me to test those.  Soooooo....it looks like I'm spending more money at newegg.  My hope is that I can get bits and pieces fast enough to get the thing working by the holiday, but I suppose that hinges entirely on how many bits and pieces are broken.  

Bleh.