disfigured

All is good now Al Asaad, and thanks.

Yeah clearing the cmos is an option and I did it a lot in the last 3 weeks. For all 4 mobos I tried.

Got things going now, although there's an annoying propensity for this gigabyte to not come up from a cold start the first time. But their site says the new bios fixes that. Gonna flash it this week end.

I would have flashed it by now, but getting the bios was a pain, and there's about 4 different ways of doing it, and I researched them all. Turns out the good ole' fashion way is still the most reliable. Hardest but most reliable.

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AngryDan

I had a similar problem about a month ago, that started off with the system booting up then either locking up, or having the screen go blank then lock up.

I managed to ignore it for a while, then it got progressively worse, to the point where I couldn't get it to boot up, without hitting 'F8' and doing a basic boot.

Long and horrible story short, I found a web site that instructed me on how to go about ripping every little 'bit' of Norton and Symantec programs out of my system.

The system purrs like a kitten now.

If you're still having problems check out this site:
"How the $#@$# do I fully remove Norton from my PC?": Tech Support from Ask Dave Taylor!