Help! Bios problem

[Chunkmcgee]

when I boot up the bottom of the screen says: Press F1 to setup, F2 to resume. When I hit F1, it takes me into the setup screen (bios, I think?). It allows me to navigate for about 3 second then locks.

If I hit F2 instead, it goes to a black screen with a cursor at top left corner.

Help!!! Please!

[BlackSheep]

Sounds like your chip might be failing, I had the similar problem with a P4 3.0-E 1M.

Can you boot into Windows by chance? If you can, download HotCPU Pro LE @ http://www.7byte.com/hotcpu.exe

Hope This Helps!!

[ikenfixit]

Try unplugging your hard drive and see if navigation without freezing is capable in BIOS. I've also seen hard drives cause this on notebooks and believe it could happen on a desktop as well. (Cursor blinking may mean its having problems trying to load the OS and is hanging)