I'd certainly look into it and if possible, have THEM remove the chips from your boards just to minimize chance of you damaging the chips. Just unscrew the boards from the big heatsinks, give a twist to loosen the TC bond and remove them to save size/weight.

Then at least the chips should be OK.

Um in that pic a least one chipsink is very askew. AFAIK they are (should be) epoxied to the chips so odds are that chip has been partly torn loose and will most likely be shorting out... If lucky they used thermal tape vs epoxy. Is the chip(s) still square with the stenciled outline? Still firmly attached?

Perhaps Opieum2/MrPark can post a few pics of the cabling?

Does it have a micro-usb on it? Stand alone Pi's get their power through that with the full size usb ports being for keyboard. V1 chips use 5v @750ma, v2 chips require 5v @1a. If it is attached to/part of the main board I'd assume it gets power from the board.

Ja. Saw an early youtube vid from Dec. 23 on unboxing/starting up an Ant S1 and yeesh! The thing had TC all over it like a paste feed line blew off and sprayed it.. At least AMT hasn't done that yet.

Just to nit and keep info straight, yes all thermal compound must be removed from where it dunna belong however most thermal compounds including Arctic Silver are not electrically conductive.

They do have a dielectric value (makes fair capacitor material). If in the wrong place it is like tying small value capacitors across leads/traces. That can lead to fun things like unwanted signal coupling between traces/leads, changing clock freqs, etc.

Any silver bearing material is to be used carefully as it WILL attack any aluminum parts it touches and the corrosion from that certainly cause a real short.

Given the slim chance of help for ya, for now guess it's up to us...
As ISAWHIM said, the backplane can be repaired. After repairing it what needs to be done is find what card caused the overload.

Trouble shooting basics:

With backplane repaired, and inspected for any shorts along where the trace burned:
Remove ALL of the ASIC cards and plug in only the floppy power connector. No GPIO to the backplane yet.
Briefly power up. Any smoke?

If not, power down and GPIO cable time, along that line; Is the GPIO card plugged in right? If the board sockets are not keyed if lucky there is P1 label on the sockets to identify which end of the socket gets the red wire on the ribbon cable. If no label, then standard practice is to have the cable leading straight out from or into the edge of board, not folded over the connector. No guarantee on that.plug the GPIO cable into the backplane and either the RasPi  _OR_ the mainboard that has the 24pin PSU connector on it. Not sure how AMT did it... Opieum, since I don't have a miner just guessing so comment on that?
Dragons look like they use GPIO from a real RasPi to the mainboard and then a cable from main to the backplane.

Briefly power up. Any smoke?

Turn on again and see if you can log into the RasPi.

If you can that only leaves the ASIC cards which will need close inspection around where the backplane plugs in.

The 5v most likely feeds the SPI interface and a data signal level translator for ASICs. Hopefully should not be too hard to see where that 5v rail is being shorted...

eep! Would be interesting to know where that trace is fed from as it tales a fair bit of current to do that. Is not from the 2.5v tab regulator as that is self limited to 1A. Don't think the GPIO can supply that either even if backwards. Got a shot of the end of the board to the left of that floppy connector?

Nope. Don't do Facebook. Hate the entire concept of it and refuse to support anything that ass Zuckerberg is associated with.

Oh damn, OT again... wonder how long before it goes *poof*

Sanitized works for me - just looked over at the other and way too toxic.
And yes them are some pretty messed up rigs due to grossly improper packing posted over there.

And just adds to the list of already existing user created threads about this mess. That makes what, 4 now?
edit: bzzzt... nope make it 3. The other 2:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=569821

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=569926.0

I know whatcha mean. The lil Atom PC I have for my TV mmedia is the the BTC core host (only takes 20 w) with a 60gb ssd in it. Shocked the hell otta me to see that massive chunk taken! Found out you can relocate the db so moved it to my 12TB NAS bucket. Works perfect.

I'd say PM ISAWHIM about the settings. He is/was part of the A1 chip dev thread and should know or point ya to someone from there who does...

On solo mining: DL the full Bitcoin core client onto a small pc with a lot of storage (currently the blockchain db is just under 19GB) and run it in server mode. Point the miner at the PC's ip address and hash away.
Oh, there is a bootstrap file of the blockchain current up to Jan of this year last I looked that reduces the time to get the whole blockchain to 'only' about a day or 2. The feed is purposely throttled to keep you bandwidth usage very low.

As long as the drive is not encrypted Win xx would see the drive just fine aside from maybe having to go into Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage to get it recognized. Just don't try to boot from it...

Heh heh. What fortuitous timing... For AMT's reference (and ours), DC power integrity basics & gotchas...
Pt.1  http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1321453
Pt.2  http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1322067&_mc=RSS_EET_EDT&cid=NL_EET_IndustrialDL_20140424&elq=5e146b06d525409cad008609bced5476&elqCampaignId=16638

They may.
But - last time I looked at BM.ch (end of March) they only had pre-order, no 'reservation queue'. Is why most of their customers are in the same boat as those here over refunds. And Toots is right. You can cancel from their new queue only because you had not given BM.ch yer money yet.

Agreed. AMT, ya know, something like this update from Black Arrow? http://www.blackarrowsoftware.com/store/bitcoin-miners-progress-update--17-april-2014.html
They too and their customers are in a world of hurt but at least reasons are being given.

Faboo! As for the GPIO cable, it is a standard and common item through Amazon, Digikey, etc.

It may be an ass-backwards way to get them but have you tried PM'ing Phin to get the parts from his miner? Considering he does not mine, might actually be useful for that.