Hi there, i would like to thank you all for your interest in my problem ,you have been a great help, I have done what you suggested TCS changed the battery and even reset the bios using the jumper. The computer has not failed to start once since then, but the floppy drive problem is still there. keeps asking for a disk. I tried my old drive it read data but after awhile it started telling me that the disk needed formatting.
I contacted DFI the manufactureres of the board, They told me to look for swoolen capacitors,and if that is the case they are willing to replace them.
no swollen caps are evident.
So probably I need a new board. I agree with Richard. Its more worth upgrading to a new proccessor once I am spending the mony,Trouble is I would have preferred to wait a bit more before upgrading. the asrock motherboard is an attractive solution, but it seems that it takes DDR ram while mine is SDRAM. Coorect me if I am wrong.It would make more sense to upgrade then to change the Ram and the board.
Thanks Nuk