potentially killed esc? pls help

[pearl elbow]

First startup, used a smoke stopper, nice beeping startup noises. (tu-du-du)

Unplugged since I couldn't clearly see if smoke stopper was all good.

Replugged and smoke stopper says all is good with a bright green light but now the quad is no longer making nice startup noises and no lights on fc.

Checked all around, no obvious shorts or bridge pads, plugged into computer and no detection, no lights on fc, no nice startup noises, only silence and a sad quad.

[still valve]

do you have a multimeter?

check the continuity

take the smokestopper off, then use the multimeter on the xt-60 connectors and see if its continuous

if it is the multimeter would beep or an icon would pop up on the screen

then you have a short