Hi jerreece, Problem fixed! I felt I had nothing to lose, so I flashed the bios and bam! the pc is up and running. I have no idea how the bios got corrupted, but its now operational. I noticed one small glitch on boot up and reboot, it sounds like the dvd making a clunking sound for maybe 5or6 times before the monitor activates. Any thoughts on this? Its not real loud, I can hear the drive spin up, the light on the monitor will blink in tjme with the clunking then will boot up. Thanks Old fa_t. And thanks to Tom's hardware forum.