Desktop Failure - Need help!

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Recently I've been getting random crashes on my system, it's not like a normal crash, where you'd get an error or something, it's as if the power has gone out, everything shuts down. Usually I can just turn it back on and it's fine, but it's just happened again and now it won't boot.

When I press the power button, the PSU fan comes on and the HDD's start spinning, but no other fans spin (case or psu) and nothing boots up. I'm guessing it's an issue with the PSU as it's quite an old / low powered one. Does this seem the likely culprit or could it be one of my other outdated components?
 
I don't at the moment! I've been meaning to upgrade for a logn time, keep putting it off, so maybe it's my computer telling me that it's time :-P If it was the PSU, would it still be able to power the HDD's as it seems to be doing at the moment? Or could it be a Motherboard issue?
 
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