Help please! Do I have ANOTHER bad board?!?!

I have an Abit board but can't save any of the settings besides loading the optimized defaults!

What is happening??

Abit KR7A-133
Athalon 1800+
512 DDR RAM
3.5 Drive
Hercules GeForce2 Pro Video card.

If I set say the time and reboot the computer just HANNGS!

If I load w/optimized values it boots up.

I've reset the CMOS using the jumper and removing the battery a few times ... any ideas .. HEEELP!

Thanks.