Help! My D400 Won't Boot And There Are No Error Codes!

I put a Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 WHS into service 9 months ago and have had no real problems. I've only had to reboot it a couple times. This past month it has "disappeared" from our family network twice. Each time it returned to normal operation after shutting it down with the power button (4 seconds) and unplugging the power cord for 30 seconds and then reversing the process to start it back up.
Last night it "disappeared" from our network again. This time it would not start back up after powering it down. When I press the power button to start it, the power LED lights up, then two blue LEDs and a red LED flicker for a millisecond, then the disk LED lights up for 12-13 seconds, then it (disk LED) flashes two times and never comes on again. The power LED remains lit but no other lights are on. Initially, I hear the fan(s) at high speed for about 5 seconds and then they idle down to slow (quiet). I hear what sounds like the disks (original 1TB drive and added 2TB WD Green drive) spinning and that sound doesn't change other than some quiet rhythmic ticking (every second or so). At no time have I had any indication that either of the drives could be having problems.
The unforgivable thing is that I have some time-sensitive important files on the WHS that I hadn't taken the time to back up. I mistakenly thought they were as safe there as anywhere else I had available at the time.
Can someone please help in the form of suggestions or direction?
Whether I can get the D400 running again or not, what are the methods, if any, of copying the files off the hard drives that were married inside the WHS? Will any basic disk recovery tools such as GetDataBack work on these spanned drives?

Hello mate,
Remove the ram module and boot your computer. It sould beep at startup without ram, otherwise it's most likely a dead motherboard. Keep us posted.
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