Alienware Aurora 9700 Troubleshooting Help

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The Alienware Aurora 9700 experienced a graphics card failure after years of use, leading to a replacement that was improperly applied with thermal paste, resulting in damage to the motherboard. After a year of inactivity, the system was examined, and upon powering it on, the power button glowed but did not respond when pressed. This issue could stem from the damaged graphics card or other underlying problems. An attached image shows the screen with a glowing power button, but the significance of an additional blue light is unclear. Further diagnostics are needed to determine the exact cause of the failure.
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My father brought an Alienware Aurora 9700 after many years of service it's graphics card gave in. He replaced it with another but he applied to much thermal past which spilt off and fried the board. I don't know all the facts because he gave up on it a year ago. Today I took it out of cupboard and examined it, when I plugged it in, the power button started to glow
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but when I pushed it nothing happened, is this because if the damaged graphics card or could something else be wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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What are we looking at in the attached image? Is this a photo of the screen?
 
Yes that is a photo of the screen and the red light is the power button glowing, I'm not sure what the glowing blue light is.
 

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