is my bios on the way out

[phreaqe]

i went to a lan party at my friends house and my computer was working fine. i came home and put my computer together the next morning. i turned it on and halfway through starting up it just shut off. i tried this about 5 times and it did the same thing each time. i finally had to reset my bios to get it to restart.

so i went back into my bios and reset my multipliers to get my processor back up to speed and eerything then restarted agian. it worked but i forgot to disable the floppy drive. since i do not have one it just hangs there telling me my floppy drive failed. so i go back into the bios to change that but when i saved and exited the bios all i got was a bunch of wierd symbols. a spade and stuff like that. and i had to push the reset button.

now everytime i go to change that it does not save it it just give me that screen.

do it sound like my bios is on the way out.

i have an asus a7n8x rev1.0 i do not want to flash the bios or anything i hae had some bad luck and killed to mobos that way.

edit: the computer works after i reset the bios, but i am just woried that my bios may fail soon.

 

[phreaqe]

bump for the early morning people

 

[Sideswipe001]

Well, there's little we can tell you if you don't want to flash the BIOS. It sounds to me like you might need to definitely do that. If not, try a new Power Supply. It might be having problems with that.

 

[chocoruacal]

Pull the cards. Pull the HSF. Reseat everything and try booting.

 

[phreaqe]

i have an antec 400. it is only a few months old. i also have a antec 300 watt supply but i am a little bit hesitant(sp?) about running that one since i have 2 HDs 2 CD drives and a 6800 gt in the system. i so not know if it could handle everything.

if i had to i could flash the bios. i just don't want to because of my bad luck in the past.