Desktop Freezes Immediately at BIOS

So a client gave me this computer to fix because it won't boot. Client claims that there's been a lot of power surges in her area so I'm taking that into consideration for this diagnosis. The boot simply will not go past the first screen (attached to this post). I've tried clearing the CMOS, remoiving the Motherboard from the case, reseating the CPU, reseating the RAM, booting without RAM (in which case it doesn't do shit). Booting with another PSU, booting with a different ram stick than the one it has etc. Nothing seems to do the trick.

It's an ECS P4900T-M2 motherboard. I can't seem to get it to boot at all. It just hangs there, it won't even go into the BIOS settings. I press "F8 for BBS POPUP" as it says and if I get to press it in time it says it's loading and again just hangs.

Now my question is the following, I've narrowed it down to only three posibilities, I'd like to know which one is the likeliest one so I can proceed from there.

1. Motherboard is fried.
2. CPU is fried.
3. Both are fried.

So which will it be?

And no bios beeps either? Or any error code LCD on the mobo telling you anything?

Have you looked for any fishy looking components?

Tell your client to get a suitable UPS asap.

Indeed I will.

I replaced the motherboard and it boots perfectly. Problem solved.

Thanks!