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Thanks for the suggestions guys. Well, have narrowed it down to the motherboard totally. Just going to buy a new motherboard/CPU/RAM and put in my old case. Old motherboard was an ASUS, so if I stick with that and the onboard video chip is the same, it should be a pretty easy replacement.

Never even get anything on the screen, and can't even get to BIOS, so pretty sure the MOBO is at fault. I may take all peripherals out of it (video card is built in) and see if I can get to the BIOS or if it never even gets me there.

OK all you PC geeks, my home desktop PC died. Appears to be motherboard related as it starts to boot with the DVD drive and hard drive spin-up, but get no display on screen and then hangs. PS voltages (12v & 5v) are there, so don't think that is the issue. Also put a backup hard drive in and still no boot, so that is not the issue.

I am relatively sure my peripherals are all good, so looking to either find a good Case/PS/Motherboard/RAM setup that someone in the Plano/Allen/Richardson area has lying around that is no longer needed, or a good deal on where to get one already put together to plug my drives and TV tuner card into. Has been so long since I built something up that I am not sure of what fits with what on MB's now.

Current system is an Intel P4 3.8Ghz with 2GB RAM, and only used for Internet, some light applications (Word, Excel, etc), my security camera video recording, and a printer gateway, so the replacement doesn't need to be a really high end processor, but would like to move to something with a little more horsepower and MIPS behind it if I am replacing it.