[Nathans_Dad]

Ok, my system seems to be having some issues. I built it myself about 2 years ago and it has been working without a problem until this week. OS is WinXP. Basically what happened was the system would not boot about 2 days ago. When you pushed the on button it would powerup for about 5 seconds and then power down again. Didn't even get to the boot cycle. I pulled the case out and all the fans were running, etc. Plugged it into a standard socket in my house and tried again and it booted. Plugged it back into the surge protector and it did the same thing again. Turned the surge protector off and then on again and it booted fine. Worked well until today. Came home from dinner and the speakers were saying "System Failed" over and over again. Computer was on, screen was black, couldn't get it to come up again. Shut the system off and then back on. Booted but on the BIOS boot screen it said my settings were invalid and I had to enter setup. I set it back to default settings and it booted ok. Shut it down from within windows and rebooted. This time it had a different BIOS than the one I flashed originally and when windows came up it recognized the RAID controller as new hardware (which it isn't). System seems to be running ok now.

Any ideas what is up? Should I flash the BIOS again? I ran my anti-virus pretty recently and nothing came up. Any other ideas? Thanks.