PC not switching on!

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Hey,

Built my current PC in April 2006 and its been fine since then but yesterday I went to switch it on and nothing happened. The red LED light on the back of the PSU is on but nothing appears to be working. I tried a few times and managed to get the red LED on the front of the case to blink once ( not been able to replicate since) but thats all, no fans or hard drives starting to spin up no nothing. I am thinking that the PSU has gone up the shoot? I'm not really in a position to try another one as the other PSU's I have available are all around the 300w mark.
My specs are:
AMD64 3700+ @ 2.6Ghz w/ Artic Cooler Pro
2GB G.Skill ZX
DFI Lanparty Ultra-D
X1900XT 512MB
X-Fi Xtreme Music
WD 120GB SATA
WD 74GB Raptor
WD 80GB IDE
Hiper 580w Type R

Nothing like this has ever happened to me in 3 years of custom PC building so i'm not really sure what to do next! Please advise!

Thanks,
 
Hi,

Little update, received a replacement PSU from Hiper but its still not working. When the power switch is applied to PSU LED's 1 & 6 are lit orange on the motherboard and nothing happens after I press the power button either on the Motherboard or on case. I am guessing the CPU or Motherboard is totalled?
 
Thanks, tried that but no game. Been looking on DFI Street forums and apparently:

4 LEDs on = Power applied, checking CPU
3 LEDs on = CPU has been detected OK, checking RAM
2 LEDs on = RAM has been detected OK, checking VGA
1 LED on = VGA has been detected OK, entering BIOS
0 LEDs on = System has booted to the Operating System

So according to this my X1900XT has died :( How long is the warranty that Sapphire offer as its over a 1 year old so I doubt OCUK can help.
 
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