hi to all i am a new member so please bear with me, i have a problem with one of my pc's i have not used it for a few days and when i went to turn it on it made a bumping sound and the power light on the front panel flashes and the harddrive light flashes the monitor says no vga signal then goes off the repeats itself. the psu fans are working and the cpu fan is working, so i am puzzled at the moment. my broardband modem is running through the ethernet connection but it says there is no pc activity, when i exchange it to the usb connection it says there is activity. i have looked and tried to see if there are loose pieces of hardware and loose connections but they seem ok, i have thought it might be a harddrive prob so i swapped over one and still its the same, so in my mind the motherboard seems the culprit, so if anybody has any ideas on this for me i would welcome them with open arms, before i go and purchase a new motherboard. thank you all for being patient with me has its my first time on here and are looking forward to any response
paul
paul