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Apparently BIOS is that dirty closet you need to clean more then once a year.

I went in and realized that a few months back (around when I started having problems) I had a crash. BIOS had to reload to default.

It changed my vid card to PCI instead of AGP, set the mem at 64 instead of 256 and had the wrong settings for my CPU.

I fixed it and will see if that helps (also turned off HT) going to see how this plays out.

Now I have a new problem though (which might seem self explanatory) when I boot up now I get this message:

"Pri Master Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace"

I have this 30G HDD from like 10 years ago, I assume it's crapping out now. Any thoughts?