Help with GA-P35-DS3L issue

Hey everyone, I'm new to the tomshardware forums. After searching the web for days I've not found an answer to my problem.

I have a system running a GA-P35-DS3L with a 2.4 ghz Q6600. It ran great for about 3 months. Last week when I went to power on, the computer remained at the bios screen (where it says press del to enter setup, f9 for Xpressrecovery2, etc..) and wouldnt boot up windows. Unfortunately, the guy I had build my computer didn't feel like installing my speaker and now its lost. So I may or may not be hearing a series of beeps that would diagnose the problem.

After that I booted back up, and after a long wait at the bios screen, I was able to get to the windows loading screen where it stayed for a good 10 minutes before booting into windows. After that I formatted and everything seemed to be working again. Until I restarted after installing drivers and software. The computer went back to long waits at the bios and windows loading screens. I've tried formatting multiple times and I keep getting the same results.

I thought that maybe I should try flashing my bios, but I have no floppy drive. I found information on how to make a bootable CD and have done so. The CD does work as a boot disk, but I can't get it to read in Q-flash. When I enter Q-flash, it only lets me choose A as my drive rather than R... and when I just press any key to boot from Cd it takes me to a weird screen.

Anyone have any ideas on what to try next?

Please list other specs (ie PSU, RAM, etc) Try clearing CMOS first and then see.

Looks to me like your BIOS is corrupt. Put in the DVD that came with the mother board and press <End>. The BIOS will re-flash the older BIOS from the DVD. or you can save the BIOS *.rom file to a FAT32 formatted USB key and then flash it.

Make the boot up like this:
1st drive: DVD
2nd drive: USB-HDD
3rd drive: Floppy

at mybios screen <END> is the button to press to go to Q-flash. I'm not sure that will work.

do I need to go to XpressRecovery2?

First thing you should do is read the manual:
http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Suppor [...] uctID=2583

Then try clearing CMOS (see manual for HOW TO). Then try what I said before.

ok im reading the manual.

First take a look inside the case to clean out any dust, and make sure the CPU cooler and other fans are actually turning (and that you CPU cooler is still securely attached).

^XPressrecovery is to recover from HDD/Software problems. Q-Flash is to recover bad BIOS. The drivers DVD automatically runs Q-Flash.