KT3 Ultra 2 (MS6380E) - Not booting, D-bracket indicates problem HDD controller

I wonder if anyone could help me. Just yesterday my whole PC (4 1/2 years old) crashed suddenly (black screen, HDD spinning down) I tried to reboot it but to no avail. My D-Bracket indicators are as follows: upper two red, lower two green, which is during the initialisation of the HDD controller. I have already tried to boot it with the bare minimum but the problem persists. When i press the power button i hear all fans in the case spinning and the HDD spinning up but there are no beeps from BIOS and the screen remains blank (can't acces BIOS either). There are also some clicks coming from the DVD-ROM drive (reading light goes on and out) for about 5 seconds and then the clicking stops. I have already tried reseating and/or replacing with other models: PSU, memory , videocard, HDD and clearing CMOS both by using JBAT jumper and removing the battery for half an hour. Does anyone know other things to try? Thank you for replying.
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Athlon XP 2000+ FSB133
512 mb DDR333
400W PSU

Thank you for the replies.
Regarding the CPU fan (Zahlman), everything is working fine, never had any problems with it, no thermal issues with CPU at all.
The D-Bracket indicators do not flash during boot but immediately illuminate top two red, lower two green. Shouldn't all four indicators be red to indicate a CPU failure (according to my manual) ?
The clicking of the DVD-ROM drive also has me worried as it seems to indicate something's wrong with the IDE controller, but I could be wrong. Something I also noticed is that when i boot the PC with HDD but without DVD-ROM drive the HDD activity LED stays illuminated all the time, but when I connect both the DVD-ROM clicks and the HDD LED goes off after three seconds. I tried another DVD-ROM drive and the clicking stays. I don't know if this is significant for troubleshooting this problem.
Will disconnect all components again as suggested and leave the mainboard without battery overnight. Should i also set the JBAT jumper to clear data during the night? I think i will unscrew the mainboard as well (but leave CPU on it) and build the PC up from scratch.

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