Ok, everyone. Long story, I'll try and make it short. For a while my computer has been making funny noises when I first start her up in the morning. Not every morning, but it's always in the morning, and the sound goes away after a minute or so. Anyways, I would have bet money that it was the PSU. I even checked reviews for the PSU I had and people described the same thing. So I purchased a new one. A Thermaltake W0014, and installed it. Everything went smoothly. I then shut down the computer, and yesterday morning I woke up to the SAME SOUNDS. And this time, it got to the Windows Login screen - and the computer beeped a few times. I then shut down. I figured it may have been the intake case fan, and switched it with another one. But now, now that computer cannot connect to the internet. I thought it was my internet, but it wasn't. My sister's computer (which I am using now), works fine. I tried everything, safe mode with networking, I tried moving the CAT5 wire to another port on the router. The only thing I haven't done yet is reformat, but I'm doing that now. I really think something is physically shot with my computer, there is no software I installed, no changes I have made - that would do this. What do you guys think? Oh and also, my motherboard is an ASUS uhm..something. ASUS A7V8X-X I think it is. I'm so very frustrated. Any advice? Please?

If the CPU fan was the source of the noise and it has now quit completely, that would explain all. Check to see that the fan initially spins and that nothing is hitting the blades.

OtheHill, That's actually a good idea. I didn't even think of that. Well, the CPU fan appears to be fine, and I just got through reformating my computer - and apparently the internet once again works on that computer. Still, I don't understand why I had to reformat in order to get it working - or why it would just stop working like that. It's pretty ridiculous, really. - Steven

When you say you "reformat", what exactly do you do?

I put in the Windows XP disc, restarted the computer, booted from the disc... It formated the HD (wiped it), and reinstalled Windows XP. - Steven

What CPU temps do you see in BIOS?

The noise issue might be the hard drive. I would definately run a test on it and make certain I had back-ups of anything I didn't want to lose.