I have issue with one of my board which I order as backup...
I had a similar issue at the time and got a replacement board from the German seller. I was allowed to keep the defective one.
I believe the LAN led is just the default state when receiving power. Not sure if my BMC led turned on, it certainly didn't blink either, will have to check that.
I looked at defective the board briefly. My best guess was to try to reflash the BMC and/or bios using one these bios programmers, but didn't actually go that far yet.The BMC is a 16pin version if I recall correctly (but for flashing only a couple of pins are actually used). I got myself one of these low cost flash adapters, but using them with clamps is apparently discouraged.
(As I had also a defective X9-SCL-F board that didn't want to POST, i tried a 8pin to flash that one's bios, and indeed it required several clamp-on attempts to read/verify correctly. after that I tried to flash the X9-SCL. the flash on that one worked, but did not unbrick that motherboard. )
After ordering the correct clamps, i managed to break the clamp to fit it on the BMC flash chip. hence my attempts for that are stalled now.
again, not sure if it will unbrick anything.
for what it's worth, when connecting the power supply, I belive the board goes into somekind of power-on loop, hearing some very light ticking sound. as if the flash for BMC could not be ready (correctly) and retries. it could of course just be some coil-whine too.