K8N Neo4 platinum lockup?

K8N Neo4 platinum edition MS-7125
AMD athlon 64
4 Gig RAM
WD 250 Gig SATA
Win XP
No issues at all for the past 5 years, then about a week ago it suddenly locked up, so I tried a reboot. Since then, it will not reboot, no on-screen prompt at all. Can this be a hard drive issue? BIOS? My D-Bracket now indicates, reading left to right:
1 - orange
2 - red
3 - red
4 - orange
Any ideas, experience with this issue? What is my next troubleshooting step?

Should I simply just press the white, round "clear CMOS" button on the MB or do the following?:
2) Clear CMOS settings by removing battery
DO NOT MOVE JBAT1(CMOS JUMPER) When Power is on
Or Power on with JBAT1 in Discharge position
Edited From Syar2003 21-11-04 03:02 Thread 5 Short Beeps
1) Disconnect the AC Lead from PSU .
2) Push the power button to drain the capacitors
3) Remove the battery for the cmos rom
4) Move the CMOS jumper (JBat1) to the ClearData position, from it's original 1-2 position to 2-3
5) Leave it as long as you want if your struggling with the build & it's getting late leave until tomorrow like this . Otherwise 5-10 minutres.
6) Set the jumper back in "KeepData" position .
7) Re Mount the battery .
8) Connect AC to the PSU .
9) Start the computer .
10) When/if bios posts with cmos checksum error .. press [del] key and load optimized BIOS defaults + save + exit
11)  let pc reboot, if you have any settings you want changing do them now. like hard disk boot order etc., Note: Also remember after removing the Battery the time date etc., will need resetting. If you forget to do this you may find it could invalidate your Windows activation, and require a telephone call.
Note: Checksum error reported means no valid user configuration stored

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