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Thanks for your wishes, and I hardly can believe it myself, it's working again!

 
Whew, were some frightening moments though. Inside the old power supply unit I've found a burnt cutout labeled with '10A 250V' - not sure how fast it reacts but this limit seems to be quite high for computer components...!? :o
But ok, let's assume the PSU manufacturer knew what he did. At least the price would imply this - the old PSU was 2-3x more expansive than the new one...

Frightening also was the 'no bootable disk found' message - one moment I really thought it had toasted all 4 hard disks... :jawdrop:
However simply resetting the Bios/CMOS helped here, even if it took an hour to find this approach. And honestly this procedure leaves a doubtful aftertaste what really happened with the motherboard, nonetheless I'm glad that all hard disks are still working (so far).
Also PCI cards and onboard components still seems to be functional, however time will show if this impression is correct.

However I have to rethink my 'backup philosophy' once again - not that I had none, but it's too lazy (or I am) and too insufficient capacity-wise. For example I had no backup from the last week incl. the long weekend... :o
And also a little backup note would be good to remember which BIOS setting you have entered the last time (CPU/bus multipliers, hyper-threading/memory stuff, etc.). Hopefully I didn't enter any mess here. :P

Edit:
In meantime it seems the graphic card suffers now some kind of hickup. While/after intense scrolling in text files or while alt+tab'ing the screen sometimes freezes for several seconds, and using the keyboard then may cause the PC tower to produce a generic 'beeep'...
However the card was already >5 years old, so almost any low budget card should be sufficient replacement.