KT6 Delta won't power up....

When I press the power button, the power LED blinks but the system doesn't power up (fans twitch). The problem started when nephew messed with bios settings "temperature for CPU(?)" (he couldn't really tell me what exactly he did. (It appears to be an "acpi" problem.) I've pulled the battery from the board hoping that "resetting" the bios would resolve the issue but it doesn't appear to have helped. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sys config
MB: MSI KT6 Delta LSR
RAM: Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512
CPU: AMD XP2500 333MHz
VC: MS-8878; GeForce4 MX 420 DDR 64MB
PS: Hercules 400W 115VAC, 7.0A, 50/60Hz
(all drives disconnected)
I believe that the setting "messed with" was the 'CPU Critical Termperature'
Mercenary: I've tried 3 power supplies from working systems with no results.
Toenne: I've followed the steps for clearing the CMOS as listed in the Guide.
Any further suggestions? (I'm completely baffled.)
Thanks to all who took the time to respond. Strange that the PS failed at the same time my nephew messed with the BIOS settings. Replaced the PS with a NEW PS and system booted and is running fine.

could it be that your nephew disabled the cpu critical temp option and then overclocked the cpu and got it overheating and burned it
Maybe you could try to reinstall the cpu, and check that the heat sink is correctly installed
...and by the way, i dont really believe that he could broke the psu with bios-settings

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I'm releived to read the greyed out AGP option is normal.
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