My 790fx GD70 had approx 3 years of perfect operation, now the HDD led is red :(

Hey everyone I'm new to the msi forums here, but I built a gaming rig about 3 years ago and its been running fantastic ever since.
Ive been looking to buy an Radeon 7950 and finally decided on the HIS 7950 IceQ boost clock from newegg for 299.
So I opened up the case just to make 100% sure that I had the necessary 2- 6 pin power connectors, which I did . I did this while the pc was on (I know dont shoot me!) I didn't touch anything on board just a few wires from the psu to look at the connectors, an my hand slighty bushed the side intake fan, no stoppage or anything like that.
When I looked up after I put the couple wires back I had no display, no keyboard or mouse, and the red HDD led was lit above the mobo power button :( :(.
Ive checked all connections and they seems to be fine, my brother has the same board in his rig, so ill take a pic of his and double check mine just to be totally sure.
The pc powers up with either the case or mobo buttons, all fans (cpu, psu, case, gpu) power up and run normally. All lights are blue that I can see, except for the red HDD led, no display, keyboard, or mouse. Also I cant power the system down by holding down either case or mobo buttons, only by switching the psu off.
After reading up on this forum and a couple others ive come to a couple possible conclusions:
Either something came unplugged which ive some how missed, my mobo has shorted somehow after approx 3 years of perfect operation, or my psu has blown.
Does anyone have any other suggestions for me? Has anyone seen something like this happen before?
The tough thing is this pc is currently used for music recording through pro tools and was about to become the main media display pc at my church, after the purchase of the new video card, so having it down meant no music recording today at church :( :(
System Specs:
AMD phenom II x4 955
MSI 790fx gd70
Asus Radeon 5750
Mushkin Redline 1600mhz 4x2
Crucial SSD 120gb
Seagate 150gb HDD
Western Digital 1tb HDD (pro tools session storage)
LG CD/DVD RW
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give! 
By the way I wrote all that on my phone! Lol

Thanks for all the help so far you guys!! Ok so i spent some more time on it and did what you both suggested. Reseated the ram, 2 sticks of 4 gb 1600 mushkin, made sure that all satas were seated properly on both the mobo and HDD sides, and checked all power connections to the board. After that i cleared cmos, and pulled the battery just to be sure.  I checked the case pwr and reset connections on the front of the case and at the mobo, and everything seems to match my brothers board connections (went and took a few pics of his). I also moved my gpu up to the top slot of the mobo so i could see the little led screen on the mobo better.
So i fired her back up, and the dang red light was still on :-(. Also the little led screen isnt post anything at all, no numbers or letters are showing. I believe my brothers read 42 when i was taking pics of his rig (must be the code for all-is-well lol).
My psu is an 850 watt Xion. For  + 12v1 and +12v2 its 18A for +12v3 and +12v4 it reads 20A and 22A respectively.
I dont see xions around much anymore, did they go out of business or something?
So do you guys think its probably the mobo since its not giving a display at the little led screen? Did it just happen to blow when i had the side panel off, could i have done something without touching the board to cause this? Maybe handling the wires? Could it possibly be the psu?
It looks like i may be in for an earlier mobo and cpu upgrade then i had originally planned :-P
Oh also my case is a full tower Azza, im not sure of the model, but its always had great cooling! (But i dont overclock lol)
Thanks so much again!

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