ABSOLUTELY BIZARRE I took the battery out for 5 hours. Put it back in and powered up. The ASUS MB screen appears, I press DEL and the next screen with the F1 prompt appears for less than a second [I don't have time to press F!] and then proceeds to boot to XP. However, the sound and keyboard don't work. So I reboot and press DEL. Now the F1 screen appears. I press F1 and get into BIOS setup. BUT I can't change the system date or time! I try other BIOS settings and those I can change! I then finish booting, XP opens the sound works but not the keyboard. So I reboot, hit DEL, hit F1 go into BIOS, and still can't change the date or time. I finish booting to XP and now the keyboard works! Sound etc., everything works. I try one last time to set the date and time in BIOS and I can't. Tab over to month and then to day and press press 6 for today. Then try to tab to year and nothing. I just sit there looking at the 6. I can't tab or ENTER. I can only ESC [same seuence in earlier attempts]. I exit BIOS and finish booting. This is so bizarre!! Do you [the experts out there] have any ideas? Do I need to upgrade BIOS? Or is there something else?