AM2 system bit the dust

[Dirk Broer]

My Siemens-Fujitsu (or was it Fujitsu-Siemens? Anyway, a dreaded German-Japanese construction), so kindly given to me by my nephew and running Lubuntu 13.04 on an AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+, has bitten the dust.

It will no more power up, that is: fans (PSU, CPU and GPU) will go spinning, but the monitor says: 'No Signal' and powers down afterwards, and the HDD light will not come up either.

Bought a new PSU: same story.
Stuck Video Card in other system: works there.
Took out all RAM: no beeps at all, nothing.
So it is either the Athlon X2 that has died, or the ECS AM2 Mobo of the Scaleo-P.
In either case they were due to have it coming, but it might have served me better if they had held out till the end of August, when I hope to replace the innards with something more modern.