No boot after water damage

Greetings,
A friend of mine spilled his drink and it fell into the side of my computer [i had no side on the case at the time] and spilled inside.  The computer quickly turned off.  After drying I booted it up and all the fans go and everything, but nothing more.   
MSI K8N Sli-F nForce4 AMD 64 Skt939 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Venice) Socket 939 Processor
1GB GeIL (2x512MB) DDR400 PC3200 Memory w/Heatsinks
eVGA nVidia GeForce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI Exp - SLI Video Card
MSI TurboStream 500watt SLI Ready Power Supply
There is nothing on the screen.  There is no beeps.  The only indication of a possible problem is the d-bracket codes with read
1  2
3  4
1- Orange
2- Red
3- Red
4- Orange
*edited*
After reading here: http://www.msicomputer.com/support/sup_tshoot.asp#1_4 I am confused.  It suggests that the LEDs are either on or off and not red/green/orange.
Any ideas?  I tried unplugging CDROMs, Video Card, cables and restarting.  I find no solutions and have spent about an hour surfing around for solutions both here and on other forums.
Loren

You can use a spray bottle with a couple of drops of dishwashing liquid mixed with water to clean sugar off of the motherboard after everything is removed from it and it is removed from the case. (cpu-memory-all plug in cards need to be removed)  The Q tips will allow cleaning in the tight areas around the components.  Allow the board to drain thoroughly by laying it upside down on a couple of bowls resting on a towel.  Leave it for about two days and then use a hair dryer to finish drying any moisture that might still be inside the cpu socket and slots on the motherboard.  Do not hurry the drying process or the use of the hair dryer.
The same procedure works with memory chips and plug in cards so clean them as well.
The manual shows the location of the plug in for the case fan.  You can get a copy of it here if needed.  The sfan connector is located close to the top of the motherboard between the cpu and memory slots.  The case speaker plugs onto jfp2 pins 2 thru 8
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=203&maincat_no=1#

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