and lightning did shoot from my ass
 

lightning :eek: struck a hydro pole ,much to my chagrin.fortunately no damage ,but the power flickered on and off 3 or 4 times.now,i have a k7s5a board with an athlon 1800+,256 megs of pc2700 .i know the board only supports the pc 2100 but there was no price diff. ,a power color nvidia geforce 4 mx440 se with tv out.also running win 98 se.when i restarted i lost my bios settings ,well not completely it seems it defaulted ,my 1800 showed as a 1.1 gig.,it showed before as a1.53 .i seemed to have fixed the proceessor problem but have no way of knowing whether the rest is right .can anybody help

i have the same board. just correct the time and set it to the best proformance options

when the bios is reset, it goes back to a 100 FSB, your chip needs a 133 bus to run at 1.53

oh and since you have good ram you can probably overclock alittle with a hacked bios (ECS doesn't like people to OC with their boards)