My mother has an HP desktop computer.. it's not terribly old. Maybe 3.5 years or so. It's completely stock, no mods, no tweaks, no third party components, etc.
Here's the important part: Over the past month or two, she's been having occasional, intermittent problems with what originally seemed like the monitor pooping out. What was happening is that she'd be in the middle of doing something (email, graphics, whatever.. but nothing graphic intensive), and all the sudden her screen would seem to shut off for a split second, then come back on. Then yesterday, her system completely locked up... mouse just stopped moving and she had to do a hard reboot. Another thing that has been happening, is that occasionally one of the fans inside the computer (I'm guessing the CPU fan) would start going faster, as if the CPU was getting too hot. These 2 problems seemed to happen separately though, no direct connection between the two.
Here's what's happening: She turned her computer on today and it wouldn't boot up. No video, no beeps. The system just turns on, fans start spinning, and that's it. I opened the case and felt the heatsink and it IS warm.
Any guesses on what sounds most likely to be the problem? I'm guessing either the CPU, motherboard, or video card, but if it was the video card, you could at least expect a beep I'd think.
Thanks