I can see how that would bring the suck, I have a job on a netbook that wont boot come monday, need to backup all pics on the HD and restore the OS.

I came home today after a week and within an hour my main comp had a virus/malware, causing all sorts of pop ups and system usage. Avast and Spybot didnt catch it so I wound up with a format reinstall, good thing it didnt get onto my home server. Since I dont save anything on my PCs I didnt lose anything from the format/reinstall and all is once again well.

I remember when my MoBo went TU and yall talked me down from the edge.

Can you boot the comp from a CD/DVD or a thumbdrive to recover the data if the MoBO isnt toast?