Is it finally dead?

My old ms 6309 v2.0 might have given up.
Yesterday I was test playing an old game on it, worked fine, and while I was playing the PC just shotdown.
The screen went dark, nothing responded, but the PSU was still running.
It didnt respond to reset button, only to the 4 sec power off thing.
When I tried to boot nothing happens at all with the system. Only thing powering up is the PSU.
There is some power though, because the graphics card fan is running.
The CPU fan is not moving.
The hard disk doesnt spin up.
There is no beep sounds
All the four LEDs on mobo are constant lit red.
I have tried a diff graph card, same thing.
Removed,  cmos battery, same thing
disconected the HD and CD, same thing
The psu fan has made a really bad noice on boot, (for a minute or so, then quiets down) a for a long time now, is it possible thu psu is broke? But why is the graph card getting power then?
I bought a new HD for it the other week, but I mean it was running fine with it so...
PSU 230W
P3 800

pmlee,
I sent you a private message but in short my system did the same thing as you describe just the other day.
If I disconnect and reconnect power and then try to turn the system on, the fans start and then the whole thing just dies.
Did you try a new motherboard?  Did it fix the problem?  Tonight I am going to try to re-seat all the devices on the board as a last gasp effort.
I put in a new PSA last night and it didn't fix the system so I think the motherboard is TOAST
I will let you know what happens, please keep me posted as well.
Good Luck
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