R61 will not power on, no beeps or POST

My R61 only blinks green power / amber battery for a second and will not turn on.  No beep, no POST.
Recently the original battery in the R61 went from about 60% capacity to 3% capacity overnight.  Since I had purchased used, I suspected the generic power supply I had bought about a year ago when I got the R61.  I ordered an authentic Lenovo power supply, but still got only 3%.  All was well since I was using the Thinkpad plugged in to the Lenovo power supply (also worked with generic) but about three days ago the laptop would not power on.
My roomate suggested that the bad battery might be to blame and that I should try it without the battery.  I tried it, but still only get green power / amber battery lights for a second and then it shuts down.  I have already tried the 10 power button pushing with 30 sec hold after and no response.  I just re-set the RAM and back-up battery (also 1 yr. old) to make sure they had not been jostled loose.
Would a new battery help or is the R61 damaged?  Don't have much cash, so don't want the possibly damaged R61 to ruin a new battery.  Any ideas or is my best bet to buy another R61 / T61 and make use of my RAM, DVD, and HDD?
P.S. I know there are similiar threads already, but none have a solutions and they are about 3 yrs. old.
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I know this is hard to take but that product line has had known board failures because of it design and chipset. There is basically nothing much you can do to resurrect it at this point in time once that problem has appeard. The most likely failure of this model line was the video chipset that would fail on these boards. If the problem was caught earlier and the heat sink was redone that might have prevent the video from failing causing no boot in your case. But that is what I see and read that these units had lots of video chipset failures and only two of which I fixed the thermal sink on one that is still running and another cleaned out much of the dust as I could and is still working. So I think once this model line hits the black screen boot that usually means it's a gooner.
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