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The green LED indicates that the standby voltage is present which is what provides the power so the front button can tell the unit to turn on fully.
At that point, there are 3 possibilities; the power supply has a fault and won't turn on, the systemboard has a fault and prevents the supply from turning on, and/or a connected device is causing a short.
Normal troubleshooting would consist of:
1) Trying another power supply (just set the system on its side and you only need to plug in the two connectors to the systemboard after unplugging all of the suspect supply's wires) If it then works (yeah!), hook the power back to the drives, see it boot, turn it off, then replace the supply inside the chassis.
2) Using the test supply hooked up to the systemboard, remove any add-on cards (modem, video, any USB devices, etc) and unplug the IDE (hard drive cables) from the systemboard. If it then works, put things back, one at a time, to find out which is fried.
3) Reseat the memory and CPU chip and try one last time.
If it is still no go, the systemboard is bad.
If you get to that point, this guy will need new video drivers; but, is a newer board which will let you upgrade further in the future:
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