well, i paid freaking $70 for a diagnostic, and they said the screws weren't in the motherboard correctly. i had some in, but apparently not enough. my case didn't even have a big enough motherboard metal peice to screw all the holes in, the very right of the motherboard didn't have screws. and i guess thats all that was stopping my computer.
thanks for the help you guys. and sorry for the late post. been playing CoD2, Halo, Age 3, CoD1, and the Bioshock Demo... which looks amazing btw.