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Well then in that case i have alredy tryed that to.
I gess there prabaly isint much i can do now. Other than just get a new motherborad. i might want a better one anyway. This is just an old one out of a cheap E-machin someone gave me. But the good part is the prossecor prabaly still works its 2.80 Ghz thats not to bad for what i do.

Hey Justin,

Sorry man, they really do die after a while. It's time to send this MOBO to the cases in the sky.

Keep us up to date on what you decide to get. We'll look forward to seeing you in the forums.

TTFN

LGW

Marked as Resolved.

Probaly a dumb question but i dont know the anser. The persion gave the computer to me becuse it had a viris, and they got a new on and they knew i liked computers. now cuild it still be on the motherborad even though i am using a competly diffrent hard drive.

Hey Justin,

That's not a dumb question at all, in fact I'll bet lots of people misinterpret hardware vs. software issues.

The term "virus", is a bit misleading, it makes us think of something intrusive, which it is, but it is attacking settings and files within the software environment of your PC. It does not have the power to actually attack your hardware. What can happen is that settings can be altered that can result in damaged hardware, but the virus cannot exist on the hardware environment of your PC the way a real life virus can exist in your body tissue.

It is possible to improperly wipe a HDD so that a virus is not removed, but the MOBO is not something that would be affected.

Hope that answers your question, looking forward to your reply.

TTFN

LGW

Well i didn't think there was a spot on the mother borad that could "store" the virus but I'm no computer arcutect ether. So i asked here. I really like this forum even though this is my first post peopo have helped a lot. And you might have noticed my bad spelling. it anoyes the heck out of me. I have to use spellchecker alot in MS Word.

Hey Justin,

I think we do a really good job trying to help people from all kinds of computer knowledge, and we LOVE questions. I'm really glad to hear that your experience has been positive and helpful. Please make sure to recommend us to your friends and family.

BTW, did you know that there is a spell checker function on the posts? Make sure that you are in Advanced mode, and click on the ABC icon in the upper right corner, it will install a webbased spell checker. (I type too fast and make typos all the time, not to mention my spelling leaves something to be desired, it's my best friend, lol).

TTFN

LGW

Ya i tried thet the other day when i posted and it helped but not enuf. Since my spellingis so bad somtimes it dosent even know what im talking about. Im thinking about just putting off building a new computer till spring. And try to finish up my CNC machin. But im glad you were abale to haelp me with this. And ill definetly ask here next time, vary nice popel. My borother told me somthing so cool today. He gos to a local college i told him to go down to the teck room and see if they had any crapy computers to through away, just to mes with. And the guy said that at the end of the year thay get all neew computers and have a sale computers $20 monitors LCDmonitors $5 That is amazing. he also said that now one ever shows and thay have to end up donating them places. So ill have to go ther since there like new dell diminchins.