Well, today my DFI LanParty UT Ultra-D motherboard unceremoniously kicked the bucket.
I was re-pasting the (aftermarket) chipset cooler and my hand slipped while putting it back. Unfortunately, that seems to have damaged one of the surface mounted components on the chipset. As a result, the motherboard powers up, the fans spin, but it doesn't post and nothing shows up on the screen. No beep codes either. I tried all the usual solutions like clearing the CMOS, booting with only a single stick of RAM, using a PCI graphics card and even replacing both the CPU and the PSU. Alas, nothing helped. It's dead, Jim.
I briefly considered replacing the board with something else, but I think I'll just part out this build. This system was too slow for late WinXP games (2006 and onward) and my LGA 1155 rig runs them with much better performance. Also, I'm currently putting together a Socket 754 build for the few edge cases like Splinter Cell and Gothic 1 which need an older GPU to display everything correctly.