KT3V motherboard Possibly damaged.

I built a computer for a child using the KT3V motherboard as a gift for Xmas 2005. The specs that I can remember are:
Athlon 1600 cpu
768 MB ram
DVD+R Drive
CD-RW Drive
60 GB HDD
Win XP Home
I get a call from the child's grandmother saying that the computer is not working and can I come take a look at it. I asked her how the computer was acting and she was not really able to describe it to me. I went to check it out and when I pushed the power button, nothing. I told her that the power supply was bad and that I had a spare power supply that I had swapped out of a new case without using it and that I would change it for her. (POWMAX 450 W) After I changed the power supply the computer started booting but the monitor had taken a while to come on and I missed the post screen. What did come up was a message that the hard drive was reported by S.M.A.R.T. as being bad and to backup and change it. After pressing the F1 key the computer continued booting and windows started OK. At this point since I had heard the floppy drive check I decided to check the optical drives for operation since I did not see them check during the post. I tried the power button on each drive and neither would open. I rebooted the computer and during post the drives were not listed. The next day I installed a new IDE cable and the drives still were not recognized during post and they still were not seeming to be getting power. Fans were being fed off of the same power leads as the drives so I removed the fan leads and still no power to the drives. I am beginning to wonder if there was some sort of voltage spike that took out the power supply and damaged the hard drive, motherboard, and optical drives. The fans still work with optical drives on the same leads. I tired some spare drives that I have but they will not work either. (they might be bad ) I have one brand new combo drive that am thinking of trying. Any suggestions ?

Hard to say! Could be the old PSU took something with it, if I read your post correctly.
Do you have another disk to try?
This is a power draining thing that has worked in similar situations...sometimes.
Disconnect things from the motherboard, after pulling power cable of course. Especially all the power cables. Take PCI-cards out and the graphics card and the memory(!!), and the CMOS battery. Leave it be for a couple of hours.
When you restart, don't have anything but the processor on.
Beeping okey!? Then put one stick of memory back on, no more.
Next thing is graphics card.
Next would be one hard disk, no more and one that you are sure is in good health.

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