Yea I'm allready a step ahead of you Darren... I allready trashed it. I kinda like the smell of silicone on a charcoal grill... lol :)

Hmmm... I know my board is a HP pull because of the "HP Invent" POST screen, but it's not that packard bell, I don't have pci express. Although the board is new enough that it has serial ATA. All I...

Try checking the power switch connections where it plugs into the motherboard. They often can come loose when a computer is moved around seeing as they do not clip in or anything. Make sure it is...

Yea try replacing the CMOS battery. That would be the most common reason. A bad flash is another reason as well, but if you haven't flashed your BIOS recently then we can eliminate that.

Once you...

Oh btw, thanks Darren2005, that site was pretty helpful. It didn't really give me a whole lot of options for my situation, but I did learn quite a bit about BIOS in general, things that I didn't know.

Well I need to figure out what type of BIOS my board has. All I know is that it was a pull from a HP system because during the POST is the " HP Invent" screen... the BIOS chip itself is not removable...

No I listed up above the type of keyboard it is. It is a ps2 keyboard and I have tried a few different ones to make sure my keyboard wasn't faulty. When the computer turns on the lights on the...

Ok, A buddy of mine recently asked me o fix his pc that some idiot custom built for him. I have worked on hundreds of computers starting when I was only 9 years old. Never found a computer that I...