You see this is always the tricky question, there is no way of knowing which one it is without being able to test it.

Personally it sounds more like a motherboard problem to me, but if you were gonna go out and purchase another motherboard I would recommend that you buy it as a bundle with a CPU.
This way you can be certain that both the board and CPU are compatible and sometimes it doesn't make a huge price difference.

well i guess i'll do that. lets hope this works

Bought a new MoBo, assuming it was a bad video port on old one. put old one back in box and got money back @ CompUSA


fixed

Good job....