How to tell if my hard drive or motherboard has a virus?

appman

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Hello,
i have a dell dimension 2400 ,one day i wake up try to turn on my system ,it starts to want to start the hard drive led on the front of the computor lights up once then stops and my machine stops and nothing else happens ,is this a hard drive problem or is it possible that the motherboard simply gone kaput ,also there is no activity on the monitor screen,is it safe to add that hard drive as a slave in my other comp?