Hey, some news. I tried doing the updating of the BIOS last night but the new flash updater kept getting timed out for some reason. So I uninstalled it, put my Motherboard CD in and copied another updater to the comp and tried to undate that again. This time it got timed out just trying to update it self.
Oh, by the way, your trick of unplugging the cord and dropping the inner voltage worked! it booted up, so that is kinda neat.
Anyways, this afternoon I was going to reformat the hard drive under a friends request, plus I wanted to try a couple of things out with the reformatting. Anyways, the screen went black at about 3% into the format. Think this says anything more about the problem?
Thanks.