I was thinking about flashing the bios previously when it was running fine so that I could overclock the cpu, but was afraid of killing the whole thing by doing it wrong. Now it seems that I have nothing to lose. I don't think it is overheating because every time I check the bios, which is nearly every time it restarts, it says it is around 85 or 90. This is with the stock HSF. However when I first got the motherboard and cpu, I did install the heatsink incorrectly and it was overheating. The symptoms were different then, though. It would come on and make it to windows and freeze, then reset and freeze continuously on bootup. Could damage from back then possibly be showing up just now? It ran for months just fine, but would it just start showing damage now?

There is another weird thing I forgot to mention. The bios seems to randomly reset itself. Sometimes it is just the date, and sometimes it's like I hit the clear cmos jumper.

I think the hard drives are ok. The 8G is about 2 years old and the 30G is about a year and a half. I reformatted them both in july and reinstalled windows. I tried reinstalling windows after these problems started, but it bsod's on during the installation when I run it through windows. Haven't tried doing it through dos. Tried to do a virus scan, but norton locked up the system again. Seems like I'm screwed no matter what I do.