First off. if you have good 5 volts at the battery box or close you need a new ram chip. Cheap and easy fix and a common failure point. Will act like bad batteries when it goes. You get the open door message and no boot.
Also recap and repin your original power supply. C2 is a known failure point along with all elec. caps, replace all the caps on that board. They only have a life of about 10 years.
Then play your fingers off.
Cheers man. easy fix.